Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee17c11b14d0a766…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: e3733dac8d57f75ff2d0253d15644bfb SHA-1: 6780ff2edf571fb7e0eceed561024ece5eb7faae SHA-256: ee17c11b14d0a76671b2879ff17e17a14f173ef5bbda7c83851b2dd0691fe4fb
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204 User Execution

The file is a PDF document that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 exploit targeting Adobe Reader's XFA form processing and LibTIFF component. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely leading to the download and execution of a second-stage payload. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the exploit's 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/