Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b7380386961f7b08…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.0 KB
MD5: e7bbb4cf0d77323b6cae690bf7bb593c SHA-1: a79fcba9e67676ca7b1a8bea4e525a8fa6ba3ee7 SHA-256: b7380386961f7b08094f309d68ff0132ba497db014524f5a9990aae0d883e470
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains XFA (XML Forms Architecture) data and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This indicates the file is designed to achieve arbitrary code execution upon opening in a vulnerable reader. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the XFA structure and could potentially be used in conjunction with the exploit. No scripts were extracted, but the exploit itself is the primary indicator of malicious intent.

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/