Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4740445ad5cc632d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

66.1 KB
MD5: c7a7099d9b9a95a8117a4d229481ffa7 SHA-1: 7394935a2b417fa082cedfafa072c7988a3b738c SHA-256: 4740445ad5cc632d8508cd2c7a026c019d406b6838fc78ed062b258064224c2f
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, indicating it's designed to compromise systems running vulnerable versions of Adobe Reader. The extracted document body contains obfuscated JavaScript, likely intended to download and execute a second-stage payload. The embedded URL is likely part of the exploit chain.

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/

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