Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a653f7501cc21cf2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.0 KB
MD5: aa94dbc369da53a34befe3275602f17c SHA-1: 6db207990dccda5fb2d5fe44dbc16dcdde6c3b61 SHA-256: a653f7501cc21cf2ea7026fc894b3a68c7e9b281bf30efe0edfe276fccafaeb7
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File

The sample is a PDF document that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 exploit targeting Adobe Reader's XFA forms. The embedded URL is likely used to download a secondary payload. The document body contains obfuscated JavaScript, which is typical for exploit delivery.

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/