Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f13edc9e8c40bca9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 15e87f7e2199a635ed98026d3c73ef8f SHA-1: 4597fe89def50c9586d039bd47ea7827fb7216fa SHA-256: f13edc9e8c40bca933ba103a75ed03e6ae24678c1d3cee4f7c4d35dd9621441b
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an XFA form that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to LibTIFF processing. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code. ClamAV also detected this file as Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36821, further indicating malicious intent. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious in this context, is part of 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/

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