Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e1d47e511eb82200…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.0 KB
MD5: 4c1d8ce8d6f6e0af97e68bd056901553 SHA-1: bef959f46f74350f21ef3d7c5b2a2ce95449cf7f SHA-256: e1d47e511eb822007604132ec8dedd73ca348f8953e5e42c8cca84858101567f
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 exploit targeting XFA forms and LibTIFF processing in Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely leading to the download and execution of a secondary payload. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is associated with XFA templates and could be a lure or part of 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/