Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f3dcb82a7c379000…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: eb881ab6815eb8d5d03fc988a8d99eb2 SHA-1: 5ac052812c9e9bad4d58c31c463125353edcfde4 SHA-256: f3dcb82a7c379000edb07c981538a1e0d57db1867cec7a77c1e23bda6e111ee8
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file that contains an XFA form, which is a known vector for exploitation. Specifically, the critical heuristic firing indicates a CVE-2010-0188 exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit likely allows for arbitrary code execution. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template but has no reputation information.

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/