Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f940e8a5ebc24caa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: 57902083c470f361f6995f260ed6c53a SHA-1: bd856fc08419724bf7b9fcf5eff4de80f25fdf7b SHA-256: f940e8a5ebc24caa0c479afe26ab82095539dc93e6d5e4049699ec90eadaf42f
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form which is exploited by CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader. This exploit allows for the execution of arbitrary code, indicated by the critical heuristic firings. The embedded URL is likely part of the exploit chain.

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/