Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e1d0d6e67d590afc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 61fcee8ede15292218dffa419d9d7245 SHA-1: eff3a610f47fce89cb01d0057fdb5d36300d7d72 SHA-256: e1d0d6e67d590afc80e7194879f308b8283bc7823018ea3fab6df8e2c7c6094c
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file that contains an XFA form, which is a known vector for exploiting Adobe Reader vulnerabilities. Specifically, the critical heuristic firing indicates exploitation of CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability related to LibTIFF processing within XFA forms. This exploit likely leads to the execution of a malicious payload. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious in reputation, is part of the XFA structure and could be involved 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/