Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0153de0156092af6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: 5b045262c16bbb7fdb9669c91b11d6d6 SHA-1: 4efaebeadf454246e852c7c974cd3c7bbd594f39 SHA-256: 0153de0156092af656df626098dd303930a76878709318fd0623654beb9f5585
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.001 Malicious Link: Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Malicious File T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter T1059.007 Command and Scripting Interpreter: JavaScript

The PDF file contains an XFA form that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, as indicated by critical heuristic firings. ClamAV also detected this as Js.Exploit.HTML-30, suggesting JavaScript-based exploitation. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is associated with XFA templates and could be part of a larger exploit chain. The ML classifier strongly flags this as malicious.

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: 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/

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