Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ce8483d313dfb1a8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 5ea54f04fb1c85080b40b7b9f6a44dc5 SHA-1: 73a2ff99dc09d25545b1c7a7aa6ef593dd862f84 SHA-256: ce8483d313dfb1a8d1a829c9c022df27f5e2cd9287f35fe86d8e63548d728355
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file that triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, an Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit. This indicates the file is designed to exploit a known vulnerability to execute arbitrary code. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the XFA template structure and may be used in the exploitation 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/

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