Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0180b33cd8784579…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 09e411a03c0fcd8bb90848db19731140 SHA-1: 5b1817b3a44ca2821e2304d8f6e4daef92b83874 SHA-256: 0180b33cd87845794236dc864359f7151918a0a09f4a6f1f3cb72379848b81ce
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.001 Malicious Link: Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Malicious File T1566 Phishing T1566.001 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Link

The file is a PDF that triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's XFA forms and LibTIFF parsing. This indicates the document is designed to exploit this vulnerability upon opening, likely to download and execute a secondary payload. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is associated with XFA templates and could be 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/

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