Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a1a30fbc88ae4e05…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.8 KB
MD5: c0e55ca67a85dc87e02886335abb9c71 SHA-1: 551733e92fe5f77a96d7837d4dab4f75dd00bc69 SHA-256: a1a30fbc88ae4e05653cfc4304fae971dffc9e4bbff1b033a9bb59f2c3ae4089
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains XFA form data and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating an exploit targeting Adobe Reader. Additionally, ClamAV detected it as Js.Exploit.HTML-30, suggesting embedded JavaScript is used for exploitation. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template, but the primary malicious activity appears to be the exploit itself.

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/

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