Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e85adb0ea69fa2c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.3 KB
MD5: f7c8613d705adcab7202c9b6f3b559d2 SHA-1: fd5668f6eefeac0ea2a79a8cd6d0e3c3c1117295 SHA-256: 3e85adb0ea69fa2c9e888be3207b72f177ae10600aa7c5531c18dc0dbe9dcda5
170 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains XFA form elements that trigger the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, targeting a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF handling. ClamAV also detected this as Js.Exploit.HTML-30, indicating a JavaScript-based exploit. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template, but the primary malicious action is the exploit execution.

Heuristics 6

  • 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 numeric character-table eval stager high PDF_XFA_NUMERIC_EVAL_STAGER
    PDF XFA initialize script reads numeric form data from rawValue, maps the values through a short character table, and evals the reconstructed stage. This is an exploit-kit staging technique even when the final decoded layer remains encoded.
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED
    The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PSEOF. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
  • 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/