Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba7d0919cc7d1663…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.0 KB
MD5: 2902d0289178c5226046a822fac5e532 SHA-1: 6283f1fde4c2dd9af6e92091b2a9ce3b52bc3d59 SHA-256: ba7d0919cc7d1663d5597cd060bd6d51a86471a711571d277e61a41e01b1e3d6
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.004 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The critical heuristic firing for CVE-2010-0188 indicates exploitation of a vulnerability in Adobe Reader via an XFA form. This suggests the PDF is designed to execute arbitrary code upon opening. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious in reputation, is associated with XFA templates and could be part of the exploit chain. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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/