Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3da5f194edb73e6e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.3 KB
MD5: a5ef3ffdb8e4bc0df46416511087cee6 SHA-1: ecf1e677f7209cba82a44f5999ab09f92eac775a SHA-256: 3da5f194edb73e6ecd1fb0d6f7cdb7301b1b2209abc9dfb73ae89bc52da3406a
168 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating exploitation of a LibTIFF vulnerability in Adobe Reader. The XFA numeric stager further suggests a payload delivery mechanism. The embedded URL, while benign in reputation, is part of the XFA structure.

Heuristics 5

  • 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 numeric character-table eval stager high PDF_XFA_NUMERIC_EVAL_STAGER
    PDF XFA initialize script reads numeric form data from rawValue, maps the values through a short character table, and evals the reconstructed stage. This is an exploit-kit staging technique even when the final decoded layer remains encoded.
  • 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/