Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 edd60ecff0a90bcf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.3 KB
MD5: 08e829754e28b528d09bc4afa9685605 SHA-1: 335be421593aeb1afbcbbbaf1621afe73bef10ce SHA-256: edd60ecff0a90bcff67ee5371c646dca677b04e684659801b14ed1b7f5836f24
168 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an XFA form that exploits CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader. The ClamAV heuristic 'Js.Exploit.HTML-30' suggests the embedded content is JavaScript-based, likely intended to download and execute a second-stage payload. The XFA numeric stager further indicates a complex execution chain designed to bypass initial detection.

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/