Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 06aa09ea151e2f51…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.0 KB
MD5: 0e991f971e03d5eb4d460ae451567e1b SHA-1: 6230f6c5736136a5fba6e4669c1b5ad099142dea SHA-256: 06aa09ea151e2f511bbb9b9629d683afcdfb84c5f3612bdc792b10e31d31d4a1
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF containing an XFA form that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader for client-side execution. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template, but the primary threat is the exploit itself, which is designed to drop a secondary 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.Dropped-78 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78
  • 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/