Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca63aa9e56da949c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.0 KB
MD5: 438f8df8cedb4cf5c43f892f663a617b SHA-1: b6f78629c3933c69448b2d4a9126ccc656e1e829 SHA-256: ca63aa9e56da949cac057bb162a0a2688c588b28b7d6945fffd5ae8832f0ac32
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

The sample is a PDF file that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 exploit targeting Adobe Reader's XFA forms. This exploit allows for the execution of arbitrary code, likely to download and run a secondary payload. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the exploit's structure.

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/

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