Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 472bb0d169034cc8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

23.9 KB
MD5: c8b0a6513d160831cecd9e5899740071 SHA-1: e80d4931294cd2fb83f3987ec47344a5e99f5e2f SHA-256: 472bb0d169034cc8d819033a3e50f60bfaf58a579d489f1e797e1566ceb14232
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, indicating it's designed to execute arbitrary code on vulnerable Adobe Reader installations. The embedded URL is likely related to the exploit 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/