Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 beaef5134963c5b2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.3 KB
MD5: 4b97c3687afb07f41a4c8ad4df219f5d SHA-1: 0ea4dcd2348bee8b11e862ebe03a27ed0bdd0e90 SHA-256: beaef5134963c5b2f230458256ed3d91b83b123009145ff81188c0f11b64d536
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an XFA form and exploits CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to LibTIFF processing within XFA forms. ClamAV also detected it as Js.Exploit.HTML-30, indicating JavaScript-based exploitation. The embedded URL is likely related to the exploit delivery or staging.

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/