Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e2401d70132b19f7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: 035500c62696663d2a1d17c9b980a4fb SHA-1: 664dd3710d4c627490c974ff3140dad4be3306e5 SHA-256: e2401d70132b19f726c1bb8f4a261b444fdb360de3b3d186e25fc23321927e05
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF document that leverages the XFA form functionality to exploit CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is associated with XFA templates and likely serves as a component 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/