Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98cd6419645d8fbf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

21.2 KB
MD5: efdae50067f48626fe7ea19ae113c3f5 SHA-1: e282b83d45a33e213a6c3112110bccdae39c945d SHA-256: 98cd6419645d8fbf6b400bc3e47af032fe87baabe88842683da48b1459958a15
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file is a PDF document that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms. This exploit allows for the execution of arbitrary code. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template, but its direct maliciousness is not confirmed by the heuristics.

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-36826 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36826
  • 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/