Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e142fc588659b75d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 92ab6eb12b50de736bedc5db85bfeabe SHA-1: b7d2f8b9fa444de095ff12441d9c6abcbe1c4525 SHA-256: e142fc588659b75dcb389e971ed1b246a3f58d2c8748f0eb14dd88f394acf84b
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file that contains an XFA form and exploits CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to LibTIFF processing within XFA forms. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the XFA template structure and likely used in the exploit chain.

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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