Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed17888f34f9a43c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.4 KB
MD5: 8fe5d44174ab798cf159c50da83afeea SHA-1: 3926fff403218af503edbd6fb9806f6cc947cec7 SHA-256: ed17888f34f9a43cab4741284f96ad27bb7627a87252b9cbf8c674439937dff2
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file that contains an XFA form, which is a known vector for exploitation. Static analysis identified a critical heuristic firing for CVE-2010-0188, indicating exploitation of a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component via an XFA payload. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution on the victim's machine. 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/