Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b8614273590cf035…

MALICIOUS

PDF

20.2 KB
MD5: ce78f056885408696298bd93f14efd2d SHA-1: 119fe286eef84e6b3fa5f35a2d4223bb5a1cd6df SHA-256: b8614273590cf0352fad9b7a2a7ee94b903f980140850689d0258e1511794391
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF containing an XFA form, which is exploited using CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader. The embedded XFA payload indicates an attempt to execute arbitrary code. The presence of an embedded URL further suggests a delivery mechanism for a secondary payload.

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/