Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 cf0968c0edc1abbf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.3 KB
MD5: 69bf4deb7e0fe4f7d033de221cfadff9 SHA-1: 64855247764c8f07ef53b31dec14e21925dcbc8d SHA-256: cf0968c0edc1abbff638015ca3df997d32a8b4de3d711656d68a840907fc4b38
168 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file is a PDF document that leverages XFA forms to exploit CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader. The XFA numeric stager and ClamAV detection (Js.Exploit.HTML-30) indicate that the exploit likely downloads and executes a second-stage payload. The embedded URL is likely part of the exploit chain.

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/