Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 97d1540afd8ed2eb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: ab2edcd8ebd00180ae851f1dda3c0f52 SHA-1: 600c869c7c2f29aec10c97b33cfbe4febb66780b SHA-256: 97d1540afd8ed2eb6345e086037542e642e625edef00efdd4ad86723cbbf585f
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 Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit is designed to achieve arbitrary code execution. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious in reputation, is part of the XFA form structure commonly abused by exploits.

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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