Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a154e3352190d05e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 81791feb41260c26ea3818f3e1009cfe SHA-1: cb5281f1762cba0d84bf06f66c9be72f0038ec4a SHA-256: a154e3352190d05e6a993637e61ae5e1e6f33444616a48131dbcbd9a4134510a
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF document that contains XFA form elements. Heuristics indicate it exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to LibTIFF and XFA. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template, but its direct maliciousness is not confirmed.

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/