Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ebe6f68b186a5eae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 54d7104ae6872b17178d8daaf10b4a73 SHA-1: 349add0d90c5d152b9134b62684f64c6fb33d55b SHA-256: ebe6f68b186a5eae1d6994743ba922c0d7f787ebcccd0b4e7942f4bf5a095737
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The file is a PDF document that contains an XFA form, which is known to be vulnerable to exploits. Specifically, the critical heuristic firing indicates a CVE-2010-0188 exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit is designed to allow arbitrary code execution when the document is opened with a vulnerable version of Adobe Reader. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious in reputation, is part of the XFA template structure.

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/

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