Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c1590c7993c35f6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 207aec2ffa05783619eef30e23d22d93 SHA-1: c9dce4bcb0af526426606c134f595d74751c1fd8 SHA-256: 0c1590c7993c35f64701f31a768964b61804770f9b09a269ae2b5de721cf1881
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF document identified as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a critical detection for the CVE-2010-0188 exploit targeting Adobe Reader's XFA forms. The ML classifier also strongly flagged the sample. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template, but the primary malicious action is the exploitation of the CVE.

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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