Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cba369dfd5a805be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 8b5f99a669dc6168804f93c2766a1d6a SHA-1: 4a0395ef778ce5ef5a6173032ebc3eb3beb83ad5 SHA-256: cba369dfd5a805be8ef1013ccfb8dd8e46fbfa440c0a723a3981bc5a07ead9fb
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application

The PDF file contains embedded XFA content, which is leveraged by the CVE-2010-0188 exploit. This exploit targets a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of XFA forms, specifically related to LibTIFF processing. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template, but the primary malicious action is the exploit execution.

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/