Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d58d1341533cbcd5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: 38b1239b61c73d35f7cdede3486c3f32 SHA-1: 1aca62e3c30f24c16a22bc70e6f21927cd55ffc2 SHA-256: d58d1341533cbcd5f76e4641f3aca3c2377936cc9c39998ba4bd01f02e746e0f
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF document that contains an embedded XFA form. Heuristics indicate it exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to LibTIFF processing within XFA forms. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code on the victim's machine. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template but does not appear to be a direct payload delivery URL.

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/