Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c658ad65d400ac12…

MALICIOUS

PDF

20.4 KB
MD5: 20983f821a212af9575b31069b1bca7b SHA-1: 29990e508d137d5204cb4c8600289b7aff87ccab SHA-256: c658ad65d400ac12d15cf7720b7f5fc55a8000215d2af0e1bf8fc8129d1f7de3
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating exploitation of a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. ClamAV also detected it as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious in this context, is part of the XFA structure.

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/