Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0128005ea6390dae…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 2955298f0be885f47d73d71e0d1857b8 SHA-1: d1abd79e13160efefbd863b085b618072935b1b6 SHA-256: 0128005ea6390daede8bb157039e34b74d48907c6fab2a78286804a861f604a2
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF containing an XFA form that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit. This exploit is known to download and execute a second-stage payload. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious, is associated with XFA templates, further supporting the exploit vector.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

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: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36821 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36821
  • 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/

Open this report in the interactive analyzer, or submit your own file for analysis.