Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee71cc5d7809b8fe…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 18855498bc109358b6b720bd20de0426 SHA-1: a67bd3f43abc85e2a3c03c277e3aa6f491dc035c SHA-256: ee71cc5d7809b8feea28980d24b098d93a7eace4bb83fe23c1f3ed991b6aebbd
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.004 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The critical heuristic firing for CVE_2010_0188 indicates that this PDF document exploits a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious, is associated with XFA templates, further supporting the exploit vector. The ClamAV detection confirms the malicious nature of the file. The exploit likely leads to the execution of 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/

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