Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 25d8a7ad34d10900…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.3 KB
MD5: 53cbd403285e59e18a272fb264b9095b SHA-1: a13067510ba91e0330f764f4cd534d9c7e3e5f33 SHA-256: 25d8a7ad34d10900a92f431640676ee573bd139ef392156f7818e966b724fed6
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating an exploit targeting Adobe Reader. ClamAV also detected it as Js.Exploit.HTML-30. The embedded URL is likely part of the exploit delivery mechanism. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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/