Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aa3bcdd7d00fb055…

MALICIOUS

PDF

13.0 KB
MD5: 10d14b07ff047a0bf1e84b3ff1db4dab SHA-1: c3e5dced61122ef7cc6c6716f50d1f3e45fb6c29 SHA-256: aa3bcdd7d00fb0555ff261ce08b64027e4cd2c5c0a1dd3de2921ede9d1ab6c36
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating an exploit targeting Adobe Reader. ClamAV also detected it as Js.Exploit.HTML-30. The embedded URL is likely part of the exploit chain. The XFA form's JavaScript content, though obfuscated, likely facilitates the exploit execution.

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/