Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9f9f00873c29d35d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 6588bb794befc33ec986dd05661af851 SHA-1: d14440b2d6ea0a2ea0ef38ef927193b5494226ad SHA-256: 9f9f00873c29d35da8c032c1fee8f2eb86f14ae96381f9450de0af1eff9b57df
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.004 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The sample is a PDF file that triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's XFA form processing. This indicates the file is designed to execute arbitrary code upon opening in a vulnerable application. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is often used in conjunction with such exploits to download further stages of the attack.

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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