Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af1a2a41503a60f0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 188569b35052f8239220c7d8bc8dae22 SHA-1: 140f1bad4a199e559b478221c5de258fd6cd4c7d SHA-256: af1a2a41503a60f03fc030624a25dd23deeb28a766fb8f72219cfa925a190e93
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms and LibTIFF processing. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious in this context, is part of the XFA template structure.

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/