Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fc0cb15745a15cd3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: d2eeb56df17f52f7f5a01b9ee44a18a1 SHA-1: 43e23444741b3ff656f651b55bd0b15a805a1014 SHA-256: fc0cb15745a15cd3b350d8f5e192b58496e82ba4c1d4e74d4266bd0353cb1217
128 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an XFA form that exploits CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader. The heuristic firings indicate a critical exploit targeting this vulnerability. Additionally, ClamAV detected this as Js.Exploit.HTML-30, suggesting JavaScript-based exploitation. 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/