Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8a7d1362a8e1d7d6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

23.9 KB
MD5: 83409f249f150213d6ae5a309b4c2022 SHA-1: 3fb49fa5d7c19348ae1e5c7e73aa45f257a2b185 SHA-256: 8a7d1362a8e1d7d66b2f4b4b97b074a6559acaee44074840694e8b5976bbf190
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file that contains an XFA form and exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of LibTIFF images within XFA forms. This exploit allows for the execution of arbitrary code. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template but does not appear to be a direct payload delivery URL.

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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