Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 30fdd155fe5951e9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.7 KB
MD5: 3e67be44aea380fa78667231e862572a SHA-1: ee39c71c9e7cdc0262b0129e6b61af9d6b6b5186 SHA-256: 30fdd155fe5951e9808243faaddc35b35675594d9eaff54b63fa1415216a9cb7
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204 User Execution

The sample is a PDF file that triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's XFA form processing. ClamAV also detected it as Js.Exploit.HTML-30, indicating a JavaScript-based exploit. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the exploit's structure. The XFA form data itself contains JavaScript-like commands, further supporting the exploit vector.

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/