Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d3a50bf5f9411d22…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 51a6ceb221cd0d695bd12dc30e8e4f7b SHA-1: dcd9a66fad191e5582439944f591cccf3f23ba3d SHA-256: d3a50bf5f9411d22568ff65ad631619027de257f219939ecedfaa178fcd6584e
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical heuristic firing for CVE-2010-0188 indicates exploitation of a LibTIFF vulnerability within XFA forms in Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is often used as a placeholder or part of the exploit chain. The XFA form itself is a vector for the exploit.

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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