Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 96fc0bf74b8146e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.0 KB
MD5: 0dd21c0a65a7b840b115ee25b3f4c659 SHA-1: 26ee223670ba394ccd6ba4c6e6e7549fc7a21476 SHA-256: 96fc0bf74b8146e932c9dde86509b9dd122a37ec406c8706b17a43aa776361ca
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical heuristic firing for CVE-2010-0188 indicates exploitation of a vulnerability in Adobe Reader via an XFA form. This exploit likely leads to the execution of a secondary payload. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is present within the context of a malicious PDF, suggesting it could be part of the exploit chain or a command and control beacon.

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/