Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2ea6da6bcfbd5b21…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.2 KB
MD5: 98c8e61290f65766cda88e0644af5f45 SHA-1: 3fecd0f1b59c7243c908172dda8aa230bf5842ad SHA-256: 2ea6da6bcfbd5b21a56dd1031444f93f376342bda4f344204f3a95e5cd571fae
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 triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit is known to deliver a second-stage payload. The presence of an embedded URL, although not directly malicious in this context, is consistent with exploit delivery mechanisms. The ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature.

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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