Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bc99e0963a3cf009…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 5de70b2ccafd25292f408b5cef5bc7b1 SHA-1: f350523ca978db5079cebb2b254dd1f3b0adc8da SHA-256: bc99e0963a3cf009f5618dfaf401be06c40390a67ec0258fba21c064ac05d9b2
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by ClamAV and exhibits characteristics of the CVE-2010-0188 exploit targeting Adobe Reader's XFA forms. The exploit is triggered by the embedded XFA payload, which is designed to execute arbitrary code. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the document's structure and may be used in conjunction with the exploit.

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/