Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fbed2a0e466a270e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 4971fd5e13b9f34816e74523ca476bf2 SHA-1: 2a8940ec3f805a91dbbb100e99f0b4bbde0ae47b SHA-256: fbed2a0e466a270ec8672abd1a7273b8b67a0b8e13517c094b58712a9cf2fc3e
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution T1559.001 Component Object Model Hijacking

The sample is a PDF file that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of XFA forms. This exploit is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is associated with XFA templates and likely serves as a lure or 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/

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