Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e71dcc87a11ca085…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 66231acdb6b90f7466e56c0efc73c05d SHA-1: 00a9d074a855d8fede48f8efbf51a7cbda3e6d53 SHA-256: e71dcc87a11ca085c9a2ba83d6e2f9ca43b169759c7f341eca26e887def67924
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF document that contains an XFA form and exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader. This exploit is known to allow for arbitrary code execution. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template but does not appear to be directly malicious.

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/