Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fefa27e10d85bdb7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: f842d2266825372d78889ecbeae6c407 SHA-1: 02e2761397ea8a95701d81b86c91cbf3617c3566 SHA-256: fefa27e10d85bdb7bdbbe206b851020700208bac478d5770e9437bb5b56a6fa2
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The sample is a PDF file that exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader, specifically targeting XFA forms. This exploit allows for the execution of arbitrary code, likely to download and run a second-stage payload. The embedded URL is associated with XFA templates, further supporting the exploit vector.

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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