Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 004992a4dcc7c218…

MALICIOUS

PDF

31.3 KB
MD5: 7d3a861fa2abf356bdae1289d5b20819 SHA-1: 4ee5691ad6d90ccc4555f5b7c520352fec9bae3f SHA-256: 004992a4dcc7c218fa49974ccdc4499c91427d6387ab49ee459b6904e5f4d79a
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious File T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter T1059.001 PowerShell

The critical heuristic CVE_2010_0188 indicates an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component via XFA forms. The ClamAV detection Js.Exploit.HTML-30 further suggests the presence of malicious JavaScript, likely used to download and execute a second-stage payload. The embedded URL, though seemingly benign, is associated with XFA templates and could be part of the exploit chain.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

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: Js.Exploit.HTML-30 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Js.Exploit.HTML-30
  • 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/