Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b016e42d866195f4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 4aa80968ec24d716ce971ed5d24d5e3c SHA-1: 9de3853e66a1338e565e1d45b01ec3bdc829e6b0 SHA-256: b016e42d866195f4ca4987d523ddaae59b46fa082a375526c36c315d7713ba9b
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file that contains an embedded XFA form. Static analysis detected a critical heuristic firing for CVE-2010-0188, indicating exploitation of a LibTIFF vulnerability within Adobe Reader's XFA processing. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code on the victim's machine. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template but does not appear to be a direct payload delivery mechanism.

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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