Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a6be076c5e587f38…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 4ba1bafa4a2ffeb71a75da0985c85e62 SHA-1: 68db1c5fe3f772a7858f3a796added5d13469824 SHA-256: a6be076c5e587f38046ff14e88a47c80a780a2bfe4e1c7b479ded13282a61439
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit is known to be used for delivering malicious payloads. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is associated with XFA forms which are often abused in exploit documents.

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/