Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fd56b125d1c5ca88…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 9538afe59600961686ee1d7f02d630a8 SHA-1: 05902425fe5fdbed07880af203fdaa04914795c2 SHA-256: fd56b125d1c5ca8861ec9c542b1dd42b1e4b360fcdd32ed25742fd6d64be9f39
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 triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, which targets a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template but does not appear to be a direct payload delivery mechanism.

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/