Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bbc3b30522c75116…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 52e4298b0a4206b8adf117f8be1dcc16 SHA-1: 146ea12be56eb64129b17df13feb2d6d24941ddb SHA-256: bbc3b30522c7511622a54ea109b21be18e1f97e3766a40ed7509f7cc2c53dbdb
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file is a PDF document that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit is designed to allow arbitrary code execution. The presence of XFA form elements further supports the exploitation vector. 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/