Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 015669cb2b803ca2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: ba6faa917f095843f3bc33326b1fc239 SHA-1: dddb2294260be28e3e449c83f1199e9667e15e4e SHA-256: 015669cb2b803ca26932e0d081c42d026ec71aa6eae03d22281e9509ed2943f7
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious Attachment T1204.001 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious Link T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

The file is a PDF that triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's XFA form processing. This indicates the document is designed to execute arbitrary code upon opening. The embedded URL, while likely benign in this context, is associated with XFA templates and could be a lure or part of the exploit chain.

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/