Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 47c2e5978b218d41…

MALICIOUS

PDF

31.5 KB
MD5: 56c6532e4901394b5f73504192bc7e33 SHA-1: 9ceeb775e567a0a6e7a5b5baaf7f39df3d4dbf3e SHA-256: 47c2e5978b218d41844109cdc5d7fe81500752a274ef999d1af9f0ada84c57d2
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating an exploit targeting Adobe Reader. Additionally, ClamAV detected it as Js.Exploit.HTML-30, suggesting JavaScript-based exploitation. The embedded URL is likely 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/