Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 414176b628a5451b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.2 KB
MD5: ddec0ada3cc014c712c7014c103565aa SHA-1: e754e1f8e2153d30e5f93e80a6466181013cef44 SHA-256: 414176b628a5451b777620b55b541511c951cae7c6cb9ca9ad55bd4a1b8eae8f
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 a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, an Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit. This indicates the file is designed to be opened by a vulnerable version of Adobe Reader to execute arbitrary code. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious in reputation, is associated with XFA forms, which are leveraged by this 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/