Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cbf9b959e53ce598…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 04685acf552759894e3927ff978e659c SHA-1: 46f47e0f3ac2c2c1b95ff9c6b76dfdd555c3065c SHA-256: cbf9b959e53ce59883972b4bc1d19c39dd619e81f9e99f2345f52d8be11c5077
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file that contains an embedded XFA form. Heuristics indicate a critical vulnerability, CVE-2010-0188, which is an Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit. This exploit is likely used to achieve arbitrary code execution. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template but does not appear to be a direct payload delivery URL.

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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