Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 019a1d8eb90998b6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 2d3aefcb3904070ba4f2d9561e2bffdc SHA-1: 51d2e7f9914e8185e9b45f70a8d1e6beb4756728 SHA-256: 019a1d8eb90998b65d1a99e19fac395c24bbc85872460f18086d2f39f81093a3
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The critical heuristic CVE_2010_0188 indicates exploitation of a LibTIFF vulnerability within XFA forms in Adobe Reader. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support a malicious classification. The embedded URL is likely related to the exploit delivery mechanism.

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/