Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 20f4fcb00cfd4e8b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

66.9 KB
MD5: c9ed4764febb9641553e787df8b269d7 SHA-1: 0a84ece17d0d5f2da0f26da155323c91dde6608d SHA-256: 20f4fcb00cfd4e8b3bdc337135eadd4390fb7fc79edae4b1eafa2b50898b807c
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204 User Execution

The sample is a PDF file that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely leading to the download and execution of a second-stage payload. The presence of an XFA form further indicates a potential attack 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.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/