Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f7f0173774fbbe74…

MALICIOUS

PDF

20.2 KB
MD5: 86168ac002cb55a99508d0e49bd2d688 SHA-1: 2044e24d777e5ed50e3b9116941b2c746b78cd0e SHA-256: f7f0173774fbbe74c7f0d065634d781efa8fc78e0b077296737be30d0b10c2f8
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.004 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The sample is a PDF file that triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, an Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit. This indicates the file is designed to exploit a known vulnerability for initial execution. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious in reputation, is part of the XFA template structure and could potentially be used for further stages.

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-36826 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36826
  • 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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