Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c8e0b68120e970a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.0 KB
MD5: ffbbc4619585761de176f45f75128d2c SHA-1: c1879d1015085627e8701fee905137fd67d5a27a SHA-256: c8e0b68120e970a43cb56e5f1accd24be76d8a4dbfc6f4dc2daf641afddbf783
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file that contains an XFA form, which is a known vector for exploiting vulnerabilities in Adobe Reader. Specifically, the CVE-2010-0188 heuristic indicates exploitation of the LibTIFF component within XFA. This suggests the file is designed to deliver a second-stage payload via the exploit. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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/