Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 171825eb9c37aa65…

MALICIOUS

PDF

13.8 KB
MD5: 2413379e91e88296eb11757780d0e1ea SHA-1: e1efeaeff72c29d56d274562fcb3090e733a24b9 SHA-256: 171825eb9c37aa652bea1850b8b11c06ba0c6423499658d303ec9b79cd17c3c3
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains XFA form data and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, which is known to target Adobe Reader. ClamAV detection of Js.Exploit.HTML-30 further indicates malicious JavaScript execution. The embedded URL is likely used to fetch 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/