Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 042c14bb791929a6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.4 KB
MD5: bab8c17561211289dad1fbf139d7f81e SHA-1: dafb5a4a843765619611b40c7cc83cb810312927 SHA-256: 042c14bb791929a60087c1f4a0b39d80f3ff97367f4510133be9b9daecb632ad
200 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is a PDF containing an XFA form that exploits CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely leading to the download and execution of a second-stage payload. The ClamAV detection 'Js.Exploit.HTML-30' further supports the malicious nature of the embedded content.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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 numeric character-table eval stager high PDF_XFA_NUMERIC_EVAL_STAGER
    PDF XFA initialize script reads numeric form data from rawValue, maps the values through a short character table, and evals the reconstructed stage. This is an exploit-kit staging technique even when the final decoded layer remains encoded.
  • 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/