Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 98ce9558d3ddcb3b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: ef73c4d0fac8785a9db1e621a9960e0e SHA-1: f53cc1177af009c1e816f7fb3743269df9050faf SHA-256: 98ce9558d3ddcb3b556b2af3c9fe345bd563a1b079f1f1bbc4e131f485f3aebc
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms and LibTIFF. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely leading to the download and execution of a second-stage payload. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the exploit structure.

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/