Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e185d58fea5f6b67…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: 590b398af6e239cef813243bbabe21a0 SHA-1: 891491dbf0a22e4e56d681a3545387cab47a65c5 SHA-256: e185d58fea5f6b677e3378ff45521d3e7b2032556113ab2e6647e8580cdb7a32
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The sample is a PDF file that exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader, specifically targeting XFA forms. The embedded URL is likely used to download a secondary payload. The heuristic firings and the nature of the exploit strongly indicate a malicious intent to gain control of the user's system.

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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