Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f5aa8731c31018ef…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.4 KB
MD5: 72f94730d8ff0c4af7225462a63bf43c SHA-1: 50d8c267abce8ca5b59eba05abd6ab4babd20b94 SHA-256: f5aa8731c31018efa56ea964d0a3015295442b6174a9e4e7050a9e7a65cb6843
168 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.001 Malicious Link: Malicious Link T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

The sample is a PDF file that leverages XFA (XML Forms Architecture) and exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to LibTIFF processing. The ClamAV heuristic 'Js.Exploit.HTML-30' suggests embedded JavaScript is used in the exploit. The document body contains obfuscated JavaScript-like code that appears to be part of the stager, likely intended to download and execute a second-stage payload from the embedded URL. The confidence is high due to the critical heuristic firings and the clear exploit path identified.

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/