Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 04705f3e760e17ff…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: d92af67e0b6bf453b810ec973fa45d8a SHA-1: a7f664b120d99a04576d18baddb1418953c7a23e SHA-256: 04705f3e760e17ffeb372fcc0e0a39f98e7d14a4d93307194c33f875296846fd
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF document identified as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a critical detection for CVE-2010-0188, an Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit. This exploit is designed to achieve arbitrary code execution. The presence of an embedded URL, though benign in this case, suggests a potential for downloading additional malicious content. The XFA form structure is often abused for exploit delivery.

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/