Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f68a76250cb5589…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.0 KB
MD5: 2835e6be48d819f8c7c44cbc00d0f90c SHA-1: f69f845183cb1f721ce3f2fb639995859b909429 SHA-256: 8f68a76250cb5589fe2be6ff4eac12733730e5d37b97e3770e91e502eeed6a06
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The sample is a PDF file that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms. This exploit allows for the execution of arbitrary code. The embedded URL is likely part of the exploit chain or a lure. No scripts were extracted from this sample, but the exploit itself is sufficient to classify the attack pattern.

Heuristics 4

  • 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
  • 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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