Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc4e934a5a87887f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: b662fb9d5408d87627fd431478848a20 SHA-1: 124b145c5acd91cb87954ece74ed37162e0a2d73 SHA-256: dc4e934a5a87887f9c772bd43e5dece8e6167edfdcacb07c630f5c8beef06687
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file is a PDF document that contains an XFA form, which is being exploited via CVE-2010-0188. This vulnerability allows for arbitrary code execution within Adobe Reader. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template but does not appear to be a direct payload delivery mechanism.

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/