Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc2aefb9de3e31bf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: bdee9c3de01673a5de74db71ab7eaf42 SHA-1: 2214737dcd740c3425f6405e42bf5a9fcf3cea4e SHA-256: dc2aefb9de3e31bfa175faad48a44715306e6a0acb244ddf32d2afa79e1347fc
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF document that contains XFA form data. Heuristics indicate it exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component, to execute a payload. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template but does not appear to be a direct download link 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/