Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a28679dd98f578af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 2c7c22e63f8be88f1d5fb6f0a3a36e17 SHA-1: 13b06f7319cb4c63987163dc48b3859aff091c98 SHA-256: a28679dd98f578afabafad38ef18b7052efd912c54fb7d530c001739b6fc4274
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, which is a critical vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF handling. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution. The embedded URL is likely part of the exploit infrastructure.

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/