Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ef46d703905adb4e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: 69532b3ef9a1ce5f9d6893581d309b6a SHA-1: adb6f29fbe5a86023dc7aef93bd4c6e2e76199a1 SHA-256: ef46d703905adb4e1ded5ed060a9169f6aab2a5eaac09815f9d5e029ee6d3aaa
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF document that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 exploit targeting Adobe Reader's XFA form processing. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely to download and run a second-stage payload. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is associated with XFA templates and could be a lure or part of the exploit chain.

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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