Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba64a09b51e25b88…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 2adf962a15dda30ece31812d2c29fd6c SHA-1: 2b470972837cf713092297aa10ecc0ffdf3e28ca SHA-256: ba64a09b51e25b88dca32b240eee6e79369a23558d320959b17aacc0d8c525cb
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 known to be vulnerable to exploits. Specifically, the critical heuristic firing indicates a CVE-2010-0188 exploit targeting 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/

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