Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b566ba338fb78177…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: c7d606af2409d383df6e109dca4ba7e9 SHA-1: 14aac45ade6adc2d95044f75a4597d3169e5f676 SHA-256: b566ba338fb78177e305134baa3157e5e4088415a4de88c1dfe0d930761dd0a2
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, an Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit. This indicates the file is designed to exploit a vulnerability in Adobe Reader to execute arbitrary code. The embedded URL is likely part of the exploit infrastructure.

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/