Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9aceb21f90116e77…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 2fb1d7efdfd7123299e2f6e780162aa4 SHA-1: 89551166a3e71af54cbf79c3e6a465b55db32a30 SHA-256: 9aceb21f90116e7773111f13f6b271db05fb02ea0c49457de4427739e1315796
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file that leverages XFA forms to exploit CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload. The embedded URL is likely part of the exploit chain.

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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