Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e796c6765508c953…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.0 KB
MD5: fb4468871ce8d456395545beff44d8c9 SHA-1: 62fba89d3bf75a0e7a529cb7066b6a82a5342979 SHA-256: e796c6765508c953b4c1bb0fdb0e71bf833aae461715572d054e62ee1a7bea2f
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF document that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms. This exploit allows for the execution of arbitrary code on the victim's machine. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template, but its direct maliciousness is not confirmed by the provided heuristics.

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/