Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 587dc5be02bedd74…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.8 KB
MD5: 16b01e2329211c2d64d8abab612f2ba2 SHA-1: 8bc61f96c786ee0f592b211146bfacacc73e00cd SHA-256: 587dc5be02bedd740a8e25f46d2405923c0dccf7a8b52e6888b8e4b531837f8e
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains XFA form data and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating exploitation of Adobe Reader. ClamAV also detected it as Js.Exploit.HTML-30. The embedded URL is likely related to the exploit delivery mechanism. The script content, though obfuscated, suggests JavaScript execution which is often used to download and execute further stages.

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/