Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 59f516a15a34131f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

23.9 KB
MD5: 84facef569653d7ce5ee34502f8217bd SHA-1: 9755b514d27bac3a298358da86a38340f4bfe09b SHA-256: 59f516a15a34131f9c9343f59f270afa43f418fcfc7a01753cfe9267c3922d5b
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file that utilizes XFA forms and exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, indicating a malicious intent to download and run a secondary payload. The embedded URL, while not directly used for payload delivery in this static analysis, is associated with XFA templates and could be 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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