Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a965ed8af0a65d7c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.0 KB
MD5: facd162421bafe3931d425368c25a8f2 SHA-1: 2eeb900fbc64428a4c01b060cd3dc44917b31da6 SHA-256: a965ed8af0a65d7cdd81e9da6fbb944c3f25d5821fb4122e911486c58609f30a
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF document that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms. This exploit is designed to download and execute a secondary payload. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is associated with XFA templates and likely serves as a lure or 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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