Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cd23fe25088c1b5a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.8 KB
MD5: e77d667b4a43539419b522cfb04bbc0d SHA-1: a5ccd5c0a5bbbc677ba9d498253c6a5559ea9307 SHA-256: cd23fe25088c1b5a79886fcb058a316ea26f729f54158406d2c385784dbc4d20
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating an exploit targeting Adobe Reader. ClamAV also detected it as Js.Exploit.HTML-30. The embedded URL is likely part of the exploit chain. No scripts were extracted, but the exploit payload is likely designed to download and execute a second-stage payload.

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/