Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b96fc81c301fdb89…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: 34504e5de31c188b730f428d8bed0cf1 SHA-1: 721e2595cc73a4fb6b1d2c85c4298b7e52ef0b27 SHA-256: b96fc81c301fdb89d3e276df7dbcfa0698d18c26158a95d2453e3c90bf827bef
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file that contains an XFA form, which is being exploited by CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template but does not appear to be directly malicious.

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/