Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 774cddcb6384a269…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.3 KB
MD5: 9f783bf442efa4c87e226b20bedd63b8 SHA-1: d6f848de0fe6585ebd21febea6c51191c251961c SHA-256: 774cddcb6384a2699a21419112e35ebfda34d2d2c1de22e4bdeadf1970fe902c
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 exploitation of a LibTIFF vulnerability in Adobe Reader. ClamAV also detected it as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious, is associated with XFA templates, reinforcing the exploit vector.

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/