Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 af2d9b5a5a7022b1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: cebad57ac0d2ef0b2b01c45861c8a766 SHA-1: 02fa4177b2c930218edbfd16af28993ba9bfed79 SHA-256: af2d9b5a5a7022b1f10246147673a7db239c22d4a969815a22e47f5005d77b7f
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file is a PDF document that contains an XFA form, which is leveraged to exploit CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to execute a payload, as indicated by the critical ClamAV detection. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious in this context, is associated with XFA templates.

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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