Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2aaa6bf34f2be903…

MALICIOUS

PDF

23.9 KB
MD5: 8de3799e19d3840f08f70e2636494e1a SHA-1: ee2acecc15a2ae039a2f5b954c88d509833d69a1 SHA-256: 2aaa6bf34f2be9030938fb977e0984e8eb99c5b57f1f2d379db0f6b5bfb2e01f
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF document that utilizes XFA forms, triggering critical heuristics for CVE-2010-0188, an Adobe Reader exploit. This indicates the document is designed to be opened by a vulnerable version of Adobe Reader to execute arbitrary code. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the XFA structure and likely related to the exploit's functionality. The ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature as a dropped exploit.

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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