Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c89680bc810b4170…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.3 KB
MD5: 92359fd12e6a08ea187b45645edfca4c SHA-1: 10d62fc23cca07817cdea340d9c835f2f83b5c28 SHA-256: c89680bc810b4170577b612a4ad93c0aff622150863931c03d94224e6b1f865c
168 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file that leverages XFA (XML Forms Architecture) to deliver a malicious payload. Heuristics indicate exploitation of CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to LibTIFF processing within XFA forms. The embedded URL is likely used to fetch additional malicious content. The ClamAV detection 'Js.Exploit.HTML-30' suggests JavaScript is involved in the exploit chain, possibly obfuscated within the XFA structure.

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/