Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a7e0f96e8a802f90…

MALICIOUS

PDF

16.6 KB
MD5: ff257da68d89cc80c4b7829325370b28 SHA-1: 45f0af8804900b2d87927a20e038d83d4edc0831 SHA-256: a7e0f96e8a802f90b9f6452ad555f54defbe8445aa6a3f69750b7e516bed469b
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by ClamAV and exhibits characteristics of the CVE-2010-0188 exploit targeting Adobe Reader's XFA forms. The embedded URL, while not directly indicative of a payload, is associated with XFA templates. The exploit likely leads to the download and execution of a second-stage 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-36835 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36835
  • 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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