Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9fc7c44f693248cf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: d263bc72d16b7614968ba42f3ed36354 SHA-1: 4a058cbb1bfb19c1bb088d6495191d34e4dc3ea5 SHA-256: 9fc7c44f693248cf66857dd82c50def843e26743529b852be6ef8b3b8528ff23
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF document that leverages the XFA form feature to exploit CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to execute a payload, likely a second-stage downloader or shellcode, as indicated by the critical heuristic firings. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the exploit's structure.

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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