Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e6b71a6328e07ec4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.0 KB
MD5: 95b09343428133e4e14548523b6de24c SHA-1: 162e37bd7e004baca646a70cc4901e380d3c592b SHA-256: e6b71a6328e07ec40e42b4b6e95ab0bb6e6cc3d2269644443289fb5e820102e1
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by ClamAV. Static analysis detected the use of XFA forms and specifically flagged the CVE-2010-0188 exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit is likely used to execute a second-stage payload. An embedded URL was also found, though its reputation is unknown.

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/