Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d93c099c598a6257…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.8 KB
MD5: 1841bf46a30f80e85d0d1370ea5b88f2 SHA-1: fc518521e6f778e99122258ed9a53ed9faa17827 SHA-256: d93c099c598a6257ecbea7e4c95b9b186822f9ee6b68f25c0d75275d6f2fda61
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious File T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form which is exploited by CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader. ClamAV also detected this as Js.Exploit.HTML-30, indicating the presence of malicious JavaScript. 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/