Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a28476c36a861447…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: 99d723dae66c7f9e48605b1d2444b0ab SHA-1: 40659203002b4af4a281f1fc9c96a7048cc9c302 SHA-256: a28476c36a861447fbe91431d0ab8e00b6ce0096ae9727d70737fce2f6dff88c
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The file is a PDF document that contains an XFA form and exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader. The embedded script, when deobfuscated, appears to be JavaScript intended to download and execute a second-stage payload. The script reconstructs the URL "http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/" from concatenated strings, which is likely the source of the malicious payload.

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED
    The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PSEOF. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
  • 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/