Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 119f681ac46a974f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

31.5 KB
MD5: dea48172e89e0578c48951c42599818e SHA-1: 165408501a023af67f3635d7f90cdf4ff8ae23cf SHA-256: 119f681ac46a974f2981ca197f02b126a1a9be08711ec734a404045c41364d5e
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an XFA form and exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader, as indicated by the 'CVE_2010_0188' and 'PDF_XFA' heuristics. The ClamAV detection 'Js.Exploit.HTML-30' further confirms its malicious nature. The embedded URL is likely used to download a secondary payload.

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/