Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0830abf94620d9d4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: b6660149c0251bb441bfe02e49dbbb50 SHA-1: 377039ea56e6d103f12d0ad183831c9274023d1a SHA-256: 0830abf94620d9d42cd16a45bd791dd9cd11ed68c8167f085c6a5b2714dc5179
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF that triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This indicates the document is designed to execute arbitrary code upon opening. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is present within the document's structure and could potentially be used in conjunction with the exploit.

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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