Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3a9727270c7363a6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.8 KB
MD5: 8bf17ce05aae129c5376a3ab1f3ec8b2 SHA-1: ed21aa0f100bb863b9cde96d29b83d22b5df8c49 SHA-256: 3a9727270c7363a6ead17ecb36ebceb111e012ce1f59c24b9033bfd00c438e45
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical heuristic firing for CVE-2010-0188 indicates that this PDF exploits a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader. The presence of an XFA form further supports this. ClamAV also detected this as Js.Exploit.HTML-30, suggesting JavaScript-based exploitation. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious, is associated with XFA templates and could be part of the exploit chain.

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/

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