Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 baa60cd6c42eadd6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 5e9710ec3fe9803e0d5cae3723c9f724 SHA-1: eb10aca41e6e2c2224db0dfb433bfecde512dc43 SHA-256: baa60cd6c42eadd6fbf9854727930a25003dbf73267cdfdb8d7fe12cfd41382c
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file that triggers critical heuristics for CVE-2010-0188, an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's handling of XFA forms and LibTIFF. This indicates the file is designed to execute arbitrary code upon opening in a vulnerable reader. The embedded URL, while likely benign in its own right, is present within the document structure, suggesting it may be used in conjunction with the exploit. No scripts were extracted, but the exploit itself is sufficient to classify the attack pattern.

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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