Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f7cea40aed6ab8b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 6e84938c69a44150fd3acad0e45e055f SHA-1: 3e230f901b5a7865637dc0b52087609d9dc22cee SHA-256: f7cea40aed6ab8b336c6022bde80cc30778c2bea0d75ee130d82f1afb27f4110
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file that contains an XFA form and exploits CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of LibTIFF images within XFA forms. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template but does not appear to be directly malicious.

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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