Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cbdbe27561ca5c7a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: c37ced9c07729a9a22bb02043e455e4c SHA-1: 8e0f94e7b94b5d50f676dee58b2436f2e6254dde SHA-256: cbdbe27561ca5c7a5e0a52f5713deb6e2e7f102835ad8901492d5e36d06c2c30
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating exploitation of Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious, is associated with XFA templates. The document body contains obfuscated JavaScript-like code that likely contributes to 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/

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