Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bb71735884f78bea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.0 KB
MD5: 05ddb3805837b9759858f58c6c487709 SHA-1: 80a6e2800ec9a80ae67f993402949425861dfe49 SHA-256: bb71735884f78bea9b73cc315a94accfbb0875541d2eeda4a43ef3b6a6c9dca7
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, which is known to target Adobe Reader. ClamAV also detected this file as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78. The embedded URL is likely used to download and execute a second-stage payload. The XFA form structure and the exploit indicate a malicious intent to compromise the user's system.

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/