Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cec94e0c62dffd5b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 86efe4b47c379b82d67371183a8abeea SHA-1: 6180d1ab6768188ebb090e9ea0dece59c1fc3161 SHA-256: cec94e0c62dffd5b00a1e007d15efc86aee0d71a72f9b03bf420ecd22291db49
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.004 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The PDF file contains an XFA form that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit in Adobe Reader. This exploit is known to be used for delivering second-stage malware. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious in reputation, is associated with XFA templates and likely part of the exploit 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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