Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cdcdaaff9e6fe2c7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 8da97867e8f7858fcdcb98e0cb75e8b4 SHA-1: 18fe0760594cabee19bd36fef3fdfb4f72ff5c6a SHA-256: cdcdaaff9e6fe2c78dd047d1831622c0b4fb4b8bd9358d53668cf91d0bda46a4
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1559.001 Component Object Model Hijacking

The critical heuristic firing for CVE-2010-0188 indicates exploitation of a vulnerability in Adobe Reader via XFA forms. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious, is associated with XFA templates. The ClamAV detection further confirms the malicious nature of the file. The exploit likely leads to the execution of a secondary payload.

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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