Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eab6feae968254df…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.8 KB
MD5: be22e76db324f238395206cccf500593 SHA-1: 695745ea7d28025628723f5ab0b01e9a76364800 SHA-256: eab6feae968254df8ec9f4d3a0399fb11a74b26c2c2d355c4cb78c82f79911fc
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious File T1566.001 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains an XFA form that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit in Adobe Reader. ClamAV also detected this as Js.Exploit.HTML-30, indicating JavaScript-based exploitation. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template, but the primary exploit mechanism is the vulnerability in the PDF reader itself. The document body content appears to be malformed script or data rather than user-facing text.

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/