Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b9ab3286e569129c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

18.0 KB
MD5: 4a254f56681c24d18c885106ba95d811 SHA-1: c900bf9431074db6f3b85d63c142c5d98d71982a SHA-256: b9ab3286e569129c0c7209abd4470bf52c082aa8b8eb30f787fc176706e1090d
168 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204 User Execution

The sample is a PDF file that leverages XFA forms to exploit CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader. The XFA numeric eval stager indicates an attempt to execute a secondary payload. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious in reputation, is associated with XFA templates and likely part of the exploit chain.

Heuristics 5

  • 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-36831 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36831
  • XFA numeric character-table eval stager high PDF_XFA_NUMERIC_EVAL_STAGER
    PDF XFA initialize script reads numeric form data from rawValue, maps the values through a short character table, and evals the reconstructed stage. This is an exploit-kit staging technique even when the final decoded layer remains encoded.
  • 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/