Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 691b43af6fd63c0b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.4 KB
MD5: 9da6962068492f01f1ef8a55c0131187 SHA-1: 78b61059a67018c4d5506b2221ee36c91af6bec6 SHA-256: 691b43af6fd63c0bc479fd48498c5da8bdbaf1ff3955d79aa0c36a5b1a663257
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious due to the critical heuristic firing for CVE-2010-0188, an Adobe Reader exploit targeting XFA forms. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious, is associated with XFA templates. The ClamAV detection of Js.Exploit.HTML-30 further supports the malicious nature, indicating JavaScript-based exploitation, likely to download and execute a secondary payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

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/