Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b080912466b9630e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: 41566beedd0f35bef42d1fa5a3fc348e SHA-1: cfb16574b24b2070d7ffd456c841f9f9cf3a587a SHA-256: b080912466b9630e1dbd652894b523d134274dd7f1464a8c286d65ad2e9772bb
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The sample is a PDF file that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability, a known exploit targeting Adobe Reader's XFA forms. The embedded XFA payload indicates an attempt to execute arbitrary code. The DOC BODY contains obfuscated JavaScript that likely attempts to download and execute a second-stage payload, though its exact functionality is obscured.

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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