Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b7727a3dc7decfa1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 15972e735fe0f2a86b21260618adf534 SHA-1: e495b279f35f68032af457b20e160cc888d7b929 SHA-256: b7727a3dc7decfa1b446a4cc3095317b8234548c2427a4a1fb55c339007a0a70
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file that leverages an XFA form to exploit the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to execute a malicious payload, as indicated by the critical heuristic firings and 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/