Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba3c65bf14e3b601…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: ff2e7bfde150f2f11ab2ccb76620fe10 SHA-1: 2688dcfca684e8db9548dc0076a9b357459db403 SHA-256: ba3c65bf14e3b60154fdae042fb71ce97498d16c7c1f6e9c4b034017e13d477a
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file that contains an XFA form. Static analysis detected a critical heuristic firing for CVE-2010-0188, indicating an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit is likely used to achieve arbitrary code execution. An embedded URL was also found, which may be used for further payload delivery.

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/