Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ed9e92ed1e8ed180…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 12a9a95bc2cc2ee00d28704075554380 SHA-1: d762673932a6edfd757b412c9f9bd073e894b087 SHA-256: ed9e92ed1e8ed180e2627cdd6e5847991d4a7fe822c4ecf42032fbea9677770f
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF document that contains an XFA form. Static analysis detected a critical heuristic indicating exploitation of CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to LibTIFF and XFA images. This exploit is used to execute arbitrary code. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template but has no reputation.

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/