Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b9c64e3f48f3548c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 1a84cddcd698467a5573cbc160731b1c SHA-1: 97fc9126ff0c044a27240ca3ea444c2dcc44c95c SHA-256: b9c64e3f48f3548c114cb5922e1d1d4b025a559988e8cad71da7fd3e22c91045
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF document that utilizes XFA forms and exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit allows for the execution of arbitrary code. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template but does not appear to be a direct payload delivery mechanism.

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/