Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aeab5816d9ff275b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: fd3adaa83606860de6b1733f56d41e2b SHA-1: 8fb700081770cb1294df4b50ef10b8b858b18833 SHA-256: aeab5816d9ff275bde6e3696fc538e9e6b9f3c1397728b8938d03ffe1f6e7df3
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.004 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The critical heuristic firings indicate the file is a PDF exploiting CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of XFA forms and LibTIFF. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is present within the document structure, suggesting it might be part of the exploit chain or a lure.

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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