Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fa22f70ce3bb0210…

MALICIOUS

PDF

92.7 KB
MD5: c66c7aaee13ebce251709fc903db2959 SHA-1: 2f60342a2bdccdb5f154bf611038f819c421629a SHA-256: fa22f70ce3bb02105a95ee09d39b22faa6d1a88671a0a4b69c31559eb006feb1
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF document identified as malicious by ClamAV. Static analysis detected the use of XFA forms and specifically flagged the CVE-2010-0188 exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit is likely used to download and execute a second-stage payload. An embedded URL was also extracted, which may be related to the exploit delivery.

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/