Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a77065ed59f8c550…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.0 KB
MD5: ec6f55cd039381db9fd16212ed07d93e SHA-1: 3e5dddf1c9250cb8d878b0f444a14182206f445c SHA-256: a77065ed59f8c5501ed6e1f2153f4647a2dd157c777585be712c82b7bf22eebe
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204 User Execution

The sample is a PDF document that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit is often used to download and execute a second-stage payload. The presence of an embedded URL further supports the delivery mechanism.

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/