Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1eed4d66d1ade398…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.8 KB
MD5: 8816eb057a4c8a7b81e019d366eb3ccf SHA-1: 071e2f69d5f0e31f503d9c071cc49d69aa4479c0 SHA-256: 1eed4d66d1ade398da5a7495fe8f29fcc3e498f37aaa813b9a732aaf5c7e44a4
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.004 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating exploitation of Adobe Reader. ClamAV also identified it as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious, is associated with XFA templates. The exploit likely leads to the download and execution of a second-stage payload.

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.Dropped-78 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78
  • 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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