Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0a314b4a06b1f84d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

20.2 KB
MD5: b01ba3ad402fa6eff1a4acc03208f534 SHA-1: 90c8dde150eb1b81ef440b1d6158a53a3cecc965 SHA-256: 0a314b4a06b1f84de93f9c859196c2efe595d006c547adfe3966095d3b22265e
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, which is an Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution, suggesting the file's primary purpose is to compromise the user's system. The embedded URL, while likely benign in this context, is listed as an IOC.

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-36826 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36826
  • 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/