Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f3114fe0d185d5f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.3 KB
MD5: b64d4659c64ea507130c4f7eb9164138 SHA-1: 584eb57ce9308225c36025579d233fed23daf0fd SHA-256: f3114fe0d185d5f3dc2452598c67d8601e034136700d6152013d14e7d7bff1ec
168 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file that leverages XFA (XML Forms Architecture) to exploit CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader. The heuristic firings indicate that it uses an XFA numeric stager to evaluate malicious content, which is further confirmed by ClamAV detecting it as Js.Exploit.HTML-30. The embedded URL, while likely benign in this context, is associated with XFA schemas and is included as a potential indicator.

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/