Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8f7045f4a45695d2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: 65f917d5b4517d1d4a1eb5029933142e SHA-1: e89944cc0dc6958fb2071fb3545328cf778b3dcd SHA-256: 8f7045f4a45695d2c9e08f4c158031df9dbd9ae447651585922b53a71e8a1885
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms. Static analysis detected the exploit payload within the XFA stream. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the XFA template structure and likely used in the exploit chain.

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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