Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 01e6b98954ebb15d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: e7ef0d5dbab765b50a700c1229560a0b SHA-1: 272a1e0699ae6d6a45d1d555ac66bdc4633ec025 SHA-256: 01e6b98954ebb15d75e39175dc254c02752003aa2670af8f9d8efcda350609cf
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file that contains an XFA form, which is known to be vulnerable to exploits. Specifically, the CVE-2010-0188 heuristic indicates a LibTIFF XFA image exploit. This exploit allows for the execution of arbitrary code on the victim's machine, likely to download and run a second-stage payload.

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/