Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f0af7267ab2066b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 4ba586598067b6ab98a20a3951c2a382 SHA-1: d9265683b9f6746718dad1430da41b5fd73d6fb2 SHA-256: f0af7267ab2066b3619d000f48af544a6800cee7951c8c1c35fd692fb5caad7a
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by ClamAV. Static analysis detected the use of XFA forms and specifically the CVE-2010-0188 exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit is used to achieve arbitrary code execution within the context of the vulnerable application. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template 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/