Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f3186bd45f684ec6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: df3ef9ad6028fcab17079fbc5b0ee5b9 SHA-1: 3271d15e18eb3375f48c2b01de6a36adaaf19649 SHA-256: f3186bd45f684ec61109d61050b45f0c42c059915164d33fdc62a2ded7bee52f
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1559.001 Component Object Model Hijacking

The critical heuristic firings for CVE-2010-0188 and ClamAV detection indicate a known exploit targeting Adobe Reader's XFA form processing. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is present within the document structure, suggesting it could be part of the exploit chain or a dropped component. The XFA form itself is the vector for the exploit.

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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