Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bf491c91161b1ad7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: a6d0dec3002c2dd28b0a3e9a725bd6a8 SHA-1: c56e058dbc0e3e0c6a9b752f39d7c460c7dec404 SHA-256: bf491c91161b1ad71f6a9c1087f1e2c95a07cd23b5f9357d67bafa7e12d119bc
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, which is known to target Adobe Reader. This exploit is used to execute arbitrary code, likely to download and run a second-stage payload. The embedded URL is likely related to the exploit 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/