Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b04dd4d78b064f14…

MALICIOUS

PDF

20.2 KB
MD5: fb88c772349b62be472356e1e68f8fe1 SHA-1: 0fca03328831175240399614605fc95e04f7716d SHA-256: b04dd4d78b064f1427097cd59a1fd52f12f36d0396a306d74f1f3eca2912fd9a
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF document that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 exploit targeting Adobe Reader's XFA form processing. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely to download and run a secondary payload. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is often used in conjunction with such exploits.

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-36826 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36826
  • 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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