Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 079f6061713dfea4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 2bba956819f893917fa22047922021f2 SHA-1: db9c92d39949d845f6d6adf7a9d822332bb102d8 SHA-256: 079f6061713dfea4617be4d32c3ea43ad454d0c03b5a4fcbac6fa0cabdf31c25
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. The presence of XFA form elements and the exploit detection strongly suggest that the file is designed to leverage this vulnerability for initial code execution. The embedded URL, while benign in reputation, is likely part of the exploit chain or a placeholder.

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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