Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 135274ec50745771…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.4 KB
MD5: c0ed0449ceef2428bb20ba9d77c40102 SHA-1: de19e64bf7784094bad269e0f45a501421537b74 SHA-256: 135274ec507457710c2636d39ae60791f0acd16d34af19d4f42e30c3894cd51c
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an XFA form and exploits CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to LibTIFF processing within XFA forms. This exploit is designed to execute embedded JavaScript. The embedded JavaScript appears to be obfuscated but is likely responsible for downloading and executing a secondary payload, as indicated by the ClamAV detection of Js.Exploit.HTML-30. The ML classifier strongly flags this PDF as malicious.

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/