Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c4ebb1c9d3d80fbf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: e43c2b15b9844e44ed56aca8ff66464f SHA-1: 26dc0647119ed2574a1886c9fd2cea43fb435f3a SHA-256: c4ebb1c9d3d80fbf4565862ea86cb03ab063ee36dfe6f0df04698fec0e9801c2
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an XFA form that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader. The heuristic firings confirm the exploit and identify the XFA structure. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious in reputation, is associated with XFA templates and is likely part of the exploit chain. The document body appears to be obfuscated script fragments, further suggesting malicious intent.

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/