Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 46e061f8ff0cef76…

MALICIOUS

PDF

20.5 KB
MD5: 9d685757a729f8f9910b4e0d3c158b6c SHA-1: 441a454ccd2ac50f19813164855bcd0aa85019ba SHA-256: 46e061f8ff0cef76ab07107b4c335b2f67435fa625938943fabb11f0d65dd314
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating an exploit for Adobe Reader. ClamAV also detected it as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78. The embedded URL is likely related to the exploit 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/