Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a791c4da1dd232a1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: aabd23dbdaca5b143d951e335ff42f75 SHA-1: c0e9df72ac226e962cd790fd3d91c85911ee3129 SHA-256: a791c4da1dd232a129091d7e8cf946fb9d2ecf4de20ef240b60e69f1495d5a31
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file that contains an embedded XFA form. Static analysis identified a critical heuristic firing for CVE-2010-0188, an Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit. This indicates the file is designed to exploit this vulnerability to achieve code execution on a victim's machine. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template but has no reputation.

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/