Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9632b76d99cf22b2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: 4adf61088167ebd90a34b66c5f2b0e92 SHA-1: b16e0aa986fd1c6ea74e4f699dec81beb240d7cb SHA-256: 9632b76d99cf22b24144fd167eda25dd87802b424cedb08c2bec55ed590af7c3
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains an XFA form, which is a known vector for exploiting vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader. Specifically, the CVE-2010-0188 heuristic indicates exploitation of the LibTIFF component within XFA. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely leading to the download and execution of a secondary payload. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is present within the document structure and could be used in conjunction with the exploit.

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/