Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ffd989686b097952…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: 84fc3c31401c490a83f4b104c259f914 SHA-1: 3426ea1d1dcbe03e626825c1b52468445479b649 SHA-256: ffd989686b09795286bb5e02297da50b9764258664306905588ae6125ce699c2
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file that leverages 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 secondary 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/