Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc3b7b6874a63792…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 00e991971affe75a688e752b875e98e7 SHA-1: b9c3af5e3bb8172ba55f5c1dc78fc265b77b09ce SHA-256: fc3b7b6874a637928a783592e717055c33d8232ac88a6a82cf801fd35a63355b
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Malicious File T1566 Phishing T1566.001 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing via Service T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application

The file is a PDF document that leverages an XFA form to exploit CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of LibTIFF images. This exploit is designed to download and execute a malicious payload. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the exploit chain. ClamAV also detected this file as malware, confirming its malicious nature.

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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