Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f9ce871c08b606bd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.0 KB
MD5: 7275e0c85b91d4338b0844f53abb9746 SHA-1: 24530078d39d6e95f0f21799d2468efb9b003adc SHA-256: f9ce871c08b606bd9436430a52a4d7076cbf941627d8f2d48aa818fe74451247
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file that contains an XFA form, which is a known vector for exploiting Adobe Reader vulnerabilities. Specifically, the 'CVE_2010_0188' heuristic indicates exploitation of the LibTIFF vulnerability in Adobe Reader. This exploit likely leads to the execution of a dropped payload, as suggested by the ClamAV detection name 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78'. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template but does not appear to be a direct download link.

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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