Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a2a6291de6bb42f5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: 64a5cbd85ffc4a1187e48a8648f42ed5 SHA-1: 609d469b1dae236197c074b17ca0eb975253bfd3 SHA-256: a2a6291de6bb42f5036e89626d6aa146535e82986c048be307bf9e49bf6c4ce5
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.001 Malicious Link: Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Clickjacking

The sample is a PDF document that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 exploit targeting Adobe Reader's XFA form processing. This exploit is known to deliver a malicious payload. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the XFA template structure and could 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/