Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 078595ac6e726e03…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: f0593bfa97c6a3e1cef4f85e962e6d95 SHA-1: 5c75804fbce55cce33daba040ce715b521bb998e SHA-256: 078595ac6e726e03c69bebd85a5d1dfc730d6bd1ed172c46910c773416beddb2
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, an Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit. This exploit is designed to achieve code execution on the victim's machine. The presence of an embedded URL, though benign in reputation, suggests a potential download or command-and-control channel. 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/

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