Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e88cc6a5a91be74…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.9 KB
MD5: 04f68e0706e06dee8923e0c33f307971 SHA-1: f56115807acc51fcde4e08e83993186fccd52667 SHA-256: 0e88cc6a5a91be74b585be3a9f0d65bddb19ef65339a74460cf945c126ecf939
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains an XFA form that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader. This vulnerability is known to be used for executing arbitrary code, and ClamAV detected it as Js.Exploit.HTML-30, indicating embedded JavaScript exploitation. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the XFA structure and may be used in conjunction with the exploit.

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/