Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0816ab2d655e35de…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.0 KB
MD5: 649159144e293858a2a8b4ffaee44db6 SHA-1: f2de98ea3a9a4c9bf979da108cb6515344d4ac1b SHA-256: 0816ab2d655e35de929cea98917a864a923d1a4cf389495d88229850135d4618
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

The file is a PDF document identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains XFA form data and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, which is known to target Adobe Reader. This exploit likely facilitates the execution of a second-stage payload, as indicated by the 'Dropped' designation in the ClamAV detection name.

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/

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