Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e8360e7085ed1f33…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: c5140e42626bb5addf86574122aad944 SHA-1: 8b06c37eb2ad1d0a92e43eb1bd8aec1dce00d157 SHA-256: e8360e7085ed1f333e645136717ec79a1c9f4095b7c055d09a8956cd991e847a
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file that contains an XFA form and exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability. This exploit targets Adobe Reader and is known to deliver malicious payloads. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious in reputation, is associated with XFA templates and is likely 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/