Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f5289d5205ca91e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 40b205153363aac1153147ea8595f916 SHA-1: ed66495ae00ab6566b55f1b5776f712bd3b1a0d7 SHA-256: 8f5289d5205ca91e2461c9324291c6d3d55ebbde1bb5cea9de011797571643b6
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file that contains an XFA form. Heuristics indicate it exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of LibTIFF within XFA forms. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template, but its direct maliciousness is not confirmed by reputation.

Heuristics 5

  • Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit — CVE-2010-0188 critical CVE likely CVE_2010_0188
    PDF contains the CVE-2010-0188 exploit template: XFA JavaScript heap-spray setup, a generated TIFF image payload, and assignment of that TIFF data to an XFA image field rawValue to trigger Adobe Reader's LibTIFF parser.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36821 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36821
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED
    The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PSEOF. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

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