Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 da6849c75f6b6a83…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 72f5375f5b06bdeea82535434a0d89e4 SHA-1: f9a82a74a2e1b973d0bbef599ac28a2044fc71b1 SHA-256: da6849c75f6b6a8334c76249621cb1196c6f98bd325036a3d6aa96d87c2d3690
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form which is known to be vulnerable to CVE-2010-0188, an exploit targeting Adobe Reader. The heuristic firings confirm the presence of this exploit. The embedded URL is likely part of the exploit chain, though its exact purpose is not fully detailed by the static analysis.

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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