Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f5125584a977bd57…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 9c8ea1850dac0d956539db8bd20a4bfa SHA-1: bc4cf5d0436c69f57875f62a3b1b7a8ed56b3911 SHA-256: f5125584a977bd576bd075f611044f11a6e9630b4455d07c3a737edbf019632d
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating exploitation of a LibTIFF vulnerability in Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload. The embedded URL is likely related to the exploit delivery mechanism.

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/