Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cad930973675f6ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 4dbc140617967c358df9f66dc6d9e892 SHA-1: 5b478e6ec7f81d353a6a3a93a0babf012bfad265 SHA-256: cad930973675f6eac7d1cc3cfb8dd82f73ba54dde0276c865e569da421bfda57
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to LibTIFF processing within XFA forms. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code upon opening the document. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template, but its direct maliciousness is not confirmed by the provided data.

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/