Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 03d99b82f32adce9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

20.2 KB
MD5: 7f44246f3cdabb7c67ca0d0b3d23406e SHA-1: e1777a1bed118b18c1155751110b61c2eea900ed SHA-256: 03d99b82f32adce9342f6c806ce153715ee3187868f70993226b8048cf03dbd5
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a critical detection for CVE-2010-0188, which is an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component within XFA forms. The presence of an embedded URL and the XFA form structure strongly suggest an attempt to deliver a malicious payload to the user's system upon opening the document.

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-36826 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36826
  • 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/