Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff9c51b023ce9003…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 6f2cd30226d0b1cb81bb815dc005aaa2 SHA-1: aeb84ae6d7f5ad5cd4ceb4f446bfab2681732681 SHA-256: ff9c51b023ce9003564ad4e1ac82de2712d67a6224c4f6064cf6ed40c5b904cc
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 exploits CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to LibTIFF processing within XFA forms. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template but does not appear to be a direct payload delivery URL.

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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