Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f0cb9eae345a98e2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

12.8 KB
MD5: 78d691ca9bafb294d0e9acf845b46407 SHA-1: 1bf7af6cab5f53fe6d04b2e2a35a5e00ea593199 SHA-256: f0cb9eae345a98e2a07667214c7591e408897d08f904e20c199fa981aac6aa95
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms. ClamAV also detected it as Js.Exploit.HTML-30, indicating embedded JavaScript exploit code. The embedded URL is likely part of the exploit chain.

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/