Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ae2eb6eaab9f9c54…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 1f75769242e06c48541386235a0f8133 SHA-1: 0d36e6a20ae30b5f22ebe0ae1ad35d2064d65212 SHA-256: ae2eb6eaab9f9c549a62184e105a95392a455cd097b7e6e1c9fe0c1809c1dba8
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file that contains an XFA form, which is a known vector for exploitation. Static analysis identified a critical heuristic match for CVE-2010-0188, indicating exploitation of a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component via an XFA payload. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution on the victim's machine.

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/