Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f3aaefee47d8c59a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: e898e53d3cd9326590088bd2ba3fd591 SHA-1: 751165a8b60941f31b12e0a5466656bb52d2a929 SHA-256: f3aaefee47d8c59a552769ef4395c61c8cd64f73bbf27b93a17d4b7bf321ee55
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF document that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit is used to execute arbitrary code. The presence of an embedded URL, though not directly malicious in this context, is typical for exploit delivery mechanisms. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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/