Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 da95ca3812ec6469…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 55f987e925c58f9006081ab52afa7e9a SHA-1: 337328ea28155a6abdb8cbaf6e3fc62e65d9ae0c SHA-256: da95ca3812ec64696841e97943e2a96bd0ef71c4d29d0729a560766b681d5c7e
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to 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 its direct maliciousness is not confirmed by the provided evidence.

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/