Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9101ec8f50c5c77a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 4b01be37b187f3d39cc2c575603600c0 SHA-1: 9c5b6da8cc08c2ec5cf0dc7c924826f4b3102fac SHA-256: 9101ec8f50c5c77a4dc5d341d75ee6795aa8bb646b2aad74389e97039097ade9
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating exploitation of a LibTIFF vulnerability in Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious in reputation, is part of the XFA structure and may be related to the exploit's functionality.

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/