Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc9991317a9c9af8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

20.3 KB
MD5: 7281e08e2eaeeb30a51b4f433f7bbb91 SHA-1: ac36207375c1af3cb09dab459c1fad7817f5b617 SHA-256: dc9991317a9c9af84d22cb0921a403ac4505b582a11224c9bb6d87f160ed18e2
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 and LibTIFF processing. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template, but its direct maliciousness is not confirmed by the provided heuristics.

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-36826 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36826
  • 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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