Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a300c970c7faadd4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: 8a8e92dc0387cc4a94d5d48a8e4a4041 SHA-1: b220e7f1334c3b6d1c2b10da5954141260219d55 SHA-256: a300c970c7faadd4f2295204e9e119bbaabca8d7d695afa9995f9132d83050d0
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious File T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter T1059.001 PowerShell

The sample is a PDF file that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 exploit targeting Adobe Reader's XFA forms. This exploit allows for the execution of arbitrary code, likely to download and run a secondary payload. The embedded URL, while obfuscated, points to an XFA schema, further supporting the exploit vector.

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/

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