Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed17f9363f5e69b8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 73b606226bef619a19fc178c55a857a0 SHA-1: 353dbfd5f89dae111be2f059028d54eda80584c3 SHA-256: ed17f9363f5e69b8755364fe0d8d739b4e559d4c48c57a89ce34d7c38be3eb05
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains XFA (XML Forms Architecture) data and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This indicates the file is designed to achieve code execution upon opening in a vulnerable reader. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is often used in conjunction with such exploits to fetch further malicious content. The document body contains obfuscated JavaScript-like code which likely attempts to download and execute a second-stage payload.

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/