Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 18332bbef6c25bae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

31.8 KB
MD5: 05b8d2a919455de877559653a4c04104 SHA-1: daf97eb9b48032ad842221bd759294a3922f76eb SHA-256: 18332bbef6c25bae218803625894ff25cc368b12c0f921e4245cb4d5d2eb7c59
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a critical detection for CVE-2010-0188, an Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit. The presence of XFA form elements and the ClamAV detection 'Js.Exploit.HTML-30' indicate that JavaScript is likely used to trigger the exploit. The embedded URL, while benign in reputation, is associated with XFA templates 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/