Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a3d10cc6dd63337a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: b5e4cc4206fc20547942ff44858f0af7 SHA-1: 4379c0e20bfa45d36b64c206b21c8cffa95cbd84 SHA-256: a3d10cc6dd63337a5340ace32e3e13403f6115d2e82c4bf5dcb80d68a9afc0b5
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an XFA form and exploits CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit allows for the execution of arbitrary code, as indicated by the critical heuristic firings and ClamAV detection. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template but does not appear to be directly malicious.

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/