Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c01db718cfddfacd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.3 KB
MD5: 88c84d31a07310dfa29f868ca3a738ad SHA-1: 5b681a97116a810e65ceef5a4918e10cd6a56b33 SHA-256: c01db718cfddfacd69fa14431eb6f9a9c45587a8937783ebd967cf1f76da3bb7
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF document that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms. Heuristics indicate it contains a JavaScript exploit (Js.Exploit.HTML-30) and an embedded URL. The XFA form structure and the embedded URL suggest the document is designed to lure the user into triggering the exploit, which likely leads to the download and execution of a second-stage payload. The exact nature of the payload cannot be determined from the provided evidence.

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/