Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bdd4ecfbf5bc6012…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.2 KB
MD5: d9034a3edf6c7ecfbdbff44b0817e136 SHA-1: 864cfc7dca054c629134141d8368acc102a93e24 SHA-256: bdd4ecfbf5bc60121ff50e498b95dd0ed5aa8f968845a884d3444e81872012eb
168 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.001 Malicious Link: Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Malicious File T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter T1059.007 Command and Scripting Interpreter: JavaScript

The sample is a PDF file that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability, targeting Adobe Reader's XFA forms. The heuristic firings indicate the use of an XFA numeric eval stager, which is often used to download and execute a second-stage payload. ClamAV also detected this as Js.Exploit.HTML-30, suggesting embedded JavaScript is involved in the exploit chain. The embedded URL is likely part of the exploit delivery mechanism.

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 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
  • 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/