Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f365a6400590a7a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: ad559959b917b3f979fd0db5cfec75f6 SHA-1: 6a8086f74026eafa4e96cc02097f6b98170bdb39 SHA-256: 9f365a6400590a7a27e00d5b586b13bd76e38e6adcb61b280e9dc33bd691e7f7
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file is a PDF document that contains an embedded XFA form. Static analysis detected a critical heuristic match for CVE-2010-0188, an Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit. This indicates the file is designed to exploit this vulnerability to achieve arbitrary code execution. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template but does not appear to be a direct payload delivery mechanism.

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/