Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cbb5e723fb5e4be3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: d7286b8c229bc8c73a0609c23f4d2800 SHA-1: 9df03403ab9e1292ffe5ce1e04a312e93bc9d069 SHA-256: cbb5e723fb5e4be3cf3abd8b5939929e36c38960d1ddf5b6cdaf1511fa4e2e69
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.004 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The critical heuristic firing for CVE-2010-0188 indicates exploitation of a vulnerability in Adobe Reader via XFA forms. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely leading to the download and execution of a second-stage payload. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the exploit chain.

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/