Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 08934891d89c138c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 261d56c8226ab66896f664e7a3b136d7 SHA-1: 7c65446a41d35d60179c62d4860a91662b6a7f6b SHA-256: 08934891d89c138ce8092c7d622d9534f1ce432a3397d494e15de957e8f40ecb
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 ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains an XFA form and exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component to achieve code execution. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious, is associated with XFA templates, further supporting the exploit vector.

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/