Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a53e640843a62e3b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: a692140c494f2d29d2c1450932be670f SHA-1: 2ee54f18b8e9e49de9b336bdec28ce25a67ab22e SHA-256: a53e640843a62e3ba974e6da0c25e0a0bc6d4ea1c01e56c67e727d771d8832cb
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious File T1559.001 Component Object Model Hijacking: DLL Side-Loading

The sample is a PDF document that contains an XFA form. Heuristics indicate a critical vulnerability, CVE-2010-0188, which is an Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit. This exploit is likely used to download and execute a second-stage payload. The embedded URL is likely related to the exploit delivery.

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/