Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 01ae28390f8fdcb2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: ee425e849b8996ebe63eaa2908c1f97b SHA-1: 47e24407ed6a8e6093761a4ad71c4f159c5f70d0 SHA-256: 01ae28390f8fdcb2b4fd438f43f0ff92aa81cfd03404132b3cd65e2d1c2396ec
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating exploitation of Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. The ML classifier also strongly flagged the file as malicious. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is present within the document structure, suggesting it might be part of the exploit chain or a lure.

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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