Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9dfee566502f33d9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 9d951279fc1aef9140599b2ab3e65aa2 SHA-1: 91074096ebd6f608510ba31be84e9836211836c8 SHA-256: 9dfee566502f33d9a040ef46aa03fcee6eb0ec527509471b634fb44c87e25adc
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an XFA form that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit in Adobe Reader. This exploit is known to download and execute a second-stage payload. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the XFA structure and likely points to resources used by the exploit. The document body contains obfuscated JavaScript-like code which further suggests malicious intent.

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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