Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba349c3c214d9ce5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.3 KB
MD5: bd8f3b8f1c77bf960d9abc7b2c1eacb9 SHA-1: aa7acc4bb707269577776e27fa822fc0628be170 SHA-256: ba349c3c214d9ce533b51ae5a53a8d4f0ec4da1985a571f8456e32d52422b0cc
170 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The sample is a PDF file that exploits CVE-2010-0188 via XFA forms, as indicated by multiple heuristic firings. ClamAV also detected it as Js.Exploit.HTML-30. The embedded URL is likely related to the exploit delivery or a secondary payload. The XFA numeric stager suggests an attempt to evaluate code, which is consistent with downloading and executing a second-stage payload.

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/