Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c1ff65460fe1800…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.4 KB
MD5: 18132c1ba49f85a06f9e457675f878f1 SHA-1: 69da2a24c3407c0bf2283bc56ea7d1e0d61791dd SHA-256: 2c1ff65460fe1800515fbfac4a6afbd03466b83570d59e6b46c46bd5753368e2
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The critical heuristic firing for CVE-2010-0188 indicates exploitation of Adobe Reader via an XFA form. The ClamAV detection 'Js.Exploit.HTML-30' further supports the malicious nature. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious, is associated with XFA templates. The document body contains obfuscated JavaScript that likely contributes to the exploit.

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/