Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be2ec7d03c47a925…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 35b7e9cf1a52b306e44d1d858f96f76f SHA-1: b55ff611926a0197a2b580838718c2465ee700e5 SHA-256: be2ec7d03c47a9253b997473b915097dbe3c035a8cea5f5b4da18ee5e0d062f8
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file that contains an embedded XFA form. Static analysis detected a critical heuristic indicating exploitation of CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA image handling. This exploit is used to achieve arbitrary code execution. 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/