Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 621e6c68a1446d63…

MALICIOUS

PDF

13.9 KB
MD5: dc5e1c3782f6becee1be61f171132d71 SHA-1: f635137df36de1bbde85f788ae4ae1a35040f883 SHA-256: 621e6c68a1446d634330f177a4cd1404179f6db7cba4b95cd2b398b7e349bedd
162 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a critical finding for CVE-2010-0188, which is an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's XFA forms. ClamAV also detected it as Js.Exploit.HTML-30. The embedded XFA form likely contains JavaScript designed to exploit this vulnerability, leading to the execution of a second-stage payload. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template, but its direct maliciousness is not confirmed.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • 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/