Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ab4ed1276e27ca7a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 697f6cfb1e2ff65afabccb5050f14d9d SHA-1: 09388425400062dac69a890bd6c4f96745daea6b SHA-256: ab4ed1276e27ca7ac93e27fd986ecb5c4d228f12ccaf418b2c40954a5d6baed7
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The critical heuristic firing for CVE-2010-0188 indicates exploitation of a LibTIFF vulnerability within XFA forms in Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is often used as a reference point in exploit chains.

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/