Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 95b3b0d5ee376ddd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.4 KB
MD5: 7a663160736d43d79fefd316378b1b5b SHA-1: 45c1e5f9d960c64b1353274d4de7e37cb31906fe SHA-256: 95b3b0d5ee376dddb80b73f9ade00c1c6f62c6b983c603ee39fa6a48446e2326
170 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains XFA (XML Forms Architecture) content, which is leveraged by the CVE-2010-0188 exploit. ClamAV detected this as Js.Exploit.HTML-30, indicating a JavaScript exploit embedded within the XFA structure. The XFA numeric stager further confirms the exploit attempt. 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/