Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dbfa9518a9aac1b5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

13.9 KB
MD5: 420ea1811241c14fe93f5acb6cf354b4 SHA-1: dd8ca8951ed3b7640ef55f505b33c27d320b8c93 SHA-256: dbfa9518a9aac1b5e0ca0fa32562b534e1089a05e578148f54c6062750ec0950
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious due to a critical heuristic firing for CVE-2010-0188, an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's XFA form processing. An embedded URL was also found. The ClamAV detection 'Js.Exploit.HTML-30' suggests the presence of JavaScript-based exploit code, likely responsible for leveraging the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability 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/

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