Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 db29df01c190e6a8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: fe1c2c8528e2d59f700f11aa673c8078 SHA-1: 9cc2380b06f4aa16e4555fcb66934a1799a3692e SHA-256: db29df01c190e6a8ae73d7cf769cc01ca095e990f5157c24bc10b92caf2c15b9
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating exploitation of a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious, is associated with XFA templates and may be used in the exploitation chain. The exploit likely leads to the download and execution of a second-stage payload.

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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