Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f1a203500ab8e7bf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 50d7235204618d30a8d9ec7e767414d0 SHA-1: 789a95d3e3e194e71252bbd7701874f99aa2f69e SHA-256: f1a203500ab8e7bf6c4336f20fe5a27ae3c6d012db9c68aa1d5730192cf5976f
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form that exploits CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader. This vulnerability allows for the execution of arbitrary code. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template, but the primary threat is the exploit itself. No scripts were extracted, but the exploit's nature suggests it's designed to download and execute a secondary 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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