Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9441c1ab73713f85…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: fdfca6b0155bb066ee76575e76e5eb3e SHA-1: e7d298eaf856cbd4093feebac3aba6a0707cf2e7 SHA-256: 9441c1ab73713f85b8523b57178103eda883f634f6b0e035221f95493c17875d
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form, which is a known vector for exploiting vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader. Specifically, the 'CVE_2010_0188' heuristic indicates exploitation of the LibTIFF vulnerability within XFA. This exploit likely leads to arbitrary code execution on the victim's machine. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious in this context, is associated with XFA templates.

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/