Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a25a005a4b5b3755…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: ed4ef9c16d42fa0503cb3ce40f85d6c7 SHA-1: 53d7a490babebf69e7adb2b1c8778131e1e30005 SHA-256: a25a005a4b5b375539411eeadb9f502fbf145813cefca06fc7766c6f9763165c
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical heuristic firing for CVE-2010-0188 indicates exploitation of a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's XFA form processing. This exploit is used to execute arbitrary code. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is present within the document structure, suggesting it may be used in conjunction with the exploit.

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/