Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 474de2d03b4f34a7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.0 KB
MD5: 866e524b5cb0eb0ed026b9daf891aef2 SHA-1: 900ac0f0cac756e0227004bdb31cf555a0c786e8 SHA-256: 474de2d03b4f34a74d2a5381328c3873fbb2e720d6826f09ad48695f76e32f63
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF document that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely to download and run a secondary payload. The presence of XFA form elements and the specific exploit signature strongly indicate malicious intent.

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/