Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bbd32d95494540af…

MALICIOUS

PDF

17.5 KB
MD5: 08025ebcfb8f1df164ca03a432f279a5 SHA-1: 5123d928c19f4ff06963175b67402a7906c98eef SHA-256: bbd32d95494540af1a1e0377295d9bfbda5b09522d50a61f53927713cc78ed93
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF document that contains an XFA form. Heuristics indicate a critical vulnerability, CVE-2010-0188, which is an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely leading to the download and execution of a second-stage payload. The embedded URL is likely related to the exploit infrastructure.

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-36835 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36835
  • 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/