Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aaa40d4bd66a56d1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.8 KB
MD5: a76af5c0617d9063ea58c2f49330f7ee SHA-1: e1a0a38a00ffb2f565fc4d239be6cb7830ac581a SHA-256: aaa40d4bd66a56d12fa88178eb122161d629bcd4a5a9df3bd7b94e1c656259d3
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application

The PDF file contains an XFA form that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, targeting Adobe Reader. ClamAV also detected it as Js.Exploit.HTML-30, indicating a JavaScript-based exploit. The embedded URL is likely related to the exploit delivery mechanism.

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/