Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aaabe9c9ccbf139c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 8c9850ed1324680d3470b6f8fb2279fb SHA-1: 833fa361fe9c84f6dfb5f139acf11f6d781e6dfd SHA-256: aaabe9c9ccbf139cedb78dde04d0a4ef5f960819aef083f46ed8fb1c68a6427f
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document identified as malicious by ClamAV. Static analysis detected the use of XFA forms and specifically flagged the CVE-2010-0188 exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit is used to execute arbitrary code, likely to download and run a second-stage payload. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the XFA template structure and could be used in conjunction with the exploit.

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/