Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cc5067c6eba715b7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.0 KB
MD5: 43abf636227ec5cc979fd517a3893072 SHA-1: 482fe07b3e7a599be3b39fa06b85a7bd2a88c3ca SHA-256: cc5067c6eba715b701ed858505428d024d33db739a58e8deb4a571b5c89cf88b
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file that contains an XFA form and exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability. This exploit is known to target Adobe Reader and is used to achieve arbitrary code execution. The embedded URL is likely used to download a secondary payload. ClamAV also detected this file as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36821.

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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