Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a41edee578a74427…

MALICIOUS

PDF

23.9 KB
MD5: 3654c1379ffc6940a6d340d075185212 SHA-1: 3e42d2400eaa5205f78338cccb15722798e5c70d SHA-256: a41edee578a74427d02888454986b580c96c5151f11a047e6d512a23cc7f9ccd
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF document that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution upon opening the document. The embedded XFA form structure is a common vector for this type of vulnerability. The document body contains obfuscated JavaScript-like content which likely forms part of the exploit payload.

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/

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