Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4698447d35fc9e14…

MALICIOUS

PDF

23.9 KB
MD5: 296cb18cb5f62f0ca9919278007daa8a SHA-1: 470aff25d4aa547175a5e980724248f525dc89f1 SHA-256: 4698447d35fc9e14598f1496943670d41c11d31ea4af8b080b9e2098a27954c6
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. The embedded JavaScript, although obfuscated, likely facilitates the execution of the exploit. The primary IOC is the embedded URL, which may be related to the exploit's functionality or a secondary payload delivery mechanism.

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/