Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ee9fadf20b3ad613…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.8 KB
MD5: b5e01f1c53d3508c485db601df30c8b1 SHA-1: 85250e78a811f61d6be6a3eb9a6f151295b10ee2 SHA-256: ee9fadf20b3ad613692c9db289f75bddeb9247fc72eae8e03be1df23c210ffa2
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The file is a PDF document that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms. The ClamAV heuristic also flags it as Js.Exploit.HTML-30, indicating embedded JavaScript exploit code. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template, but the primary attack vector is the exploit itself, which aims to execute arbitrary code on the victim's machine.

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/