Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eeb8376a5af0a770…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: c9c7c2fad936599fcd3e2ac289731cd1 SHA-1: bd130861b26dc23f621a59ca76e7ec5bb664f86f SHA-256: eeb8376a5af0a77037813ffc3af9212d4258c73ae2a158ec4cc67a373a49b744
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file that contains an XFA form and exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader. This exploit is used to achieve arbitrary code execution. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template, but no further malicious activity was observed.

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/