Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f84962209945519b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

93.0 KB
MD5: 4a82dc15f1616533388d9e22cea94819 SHA-1: 109c93e08666e7070e594bd49c827ac2958f442b SHA-256: f84962209945519b6b556c1c48174163a7aeee971b3845cb647798e5205eaf9d
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, indicating it's designed to execute arbitrary code. ClamAV also detected it as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78. The embedded URL is likely part of the exploit chain, though its specific function is not detailed.

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/