Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 974b16babb25384c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.6 KB
MD5: 94ad73c3d95976d6cea5015a6ac043e5 SHA-1: ace021b6436e312ee843b1618ee3d81f59915ed0 SHA-256: 974b16babb25384c41d64da6f7219c3fde8ed68adb8d2aa544b28014f1b24903
130 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, which is known to target Adobe Reader. ClamAV also detected it as Js.Exploit.HTML-30, indicating embedded JavaScript exploit code. The embedded URL is likely related to the exploit delivery or a secondary payload. The exploit's purpose is to execute arbitrary code on the victim's machine.

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/