Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aacddec1bf2e3e71…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: f7813929153320c54a9b17a9d260168d SHA-1: 94205eb8cf4324a4d5c7f791ec5caf31de0ae028 SHA-256: aacddec1bf2e3e71824eedf5d01ae8a86b0bfa2eb5d3114fd8f6ac63562c16a2
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF document that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms. The exploit targets LibTIFF and is detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36821. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template, but the primary malicious action is the exploitation of the CVE.

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/

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