Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a0d5a8731a1d1c1a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: d0752a12f6b22637627600c240c61f1a SHA-1: 5f0ee82bb27e2b0949f19c65b6701ba51fa58fe0 SHA-256: a0d5a8731a1d1c1aa3c9994f827477b0f128163300fde6248cbe5147ea7a78b9
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF document that leverages an XFA form to exploit CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to execute a malicious payload, as indicated by the critical ClamAV detection and the heuristic matching the decoded XFA payload. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the XFA template structure and may be used in the exploitation chain.

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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