Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9c48f57b8a46183f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 0a804a731f4318c2e30bca2a4cdc4ceb SHA-1: fabdeb9f2b75ea59033a0b91042f40ede95ca682 SHA-256: 9c48f57b8a46183f252ba0a4df6810a2f8e9451f99436a2702e4152c7117512e
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form which is exploited by CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template, but no further malicious activity was observed in the static analysis.

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/