Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 df14161146183183…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 2962a90c115627c24b3ff51825bc2f74 SHA-1: b8e5e128d83df111bd61c2a1e1d96d402c12ca29 SHA-256: df14161146183183d130525dd0ae964d64c477eb660cfa4c6924271300cdd329
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204 User Execution

The sample is a PDF document that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 exploit targeting Adobe Reader's XFA forms. This exploit is known to download and execute a second-stage payload. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the XFA template structure and could be used in conjunction with 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/