Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d07172792f17aee3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: 3a88a85c485436e5be7e4449e99bd86f SHA-1: 4a99f9ad4b9764bbd8f691585f36f75a807843ad SHA-256: d07172792f17aee340445eb355e56f72278aebec01a0bec42336ba7b5cbe6647
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Malicious File T1566 Phishing T1566.001 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing via Service T1566.003 Phishing: Phishing via Service

The sample is a PDF document that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 exploit targeting Adobe Reader's XFA forms. This exploit allows for the execution of arbitrary code, likely to download and run a secondary payload. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the exploit mechanism.

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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