Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9492c9cef6c0719a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: ac44b5f67443729e1e1db565b248d48d SHA-1: 4ce699dea3db9c55cf4f018754a79fe61c7a4c38 SHA-256: 9492c9cef6c0719a7ad74fcf5d5b89724b9e8bd9d6300d176f5cfdd0b1ab883b
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, targeting a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of XFA forms. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is associated with XFA templates and could be part of 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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