Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a1681350d558264a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: 63aebef8574699293b2b75b8b842c7f8 SHA-1: 2581bacf7ec7636bf6a25434b078fc7a7328a464 SHA-256: a1681350d558264ad8cbc4dd4bf18ee9d22d61f992db5a36a5ccde6a3627f5fb
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204 User Execution

The sample is a PDF document that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 exploit targeting Adobe Reader's handling of XFA forms and LibTIFF images. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely leading to the download and execution of a secondary payload. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is present within the document'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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