Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0c6eb4c0d1d4bb84…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: deb2ddd23f7374c7cded47cc4f4d8686 SHA-1: 60c232d08e9c264bcf2be150b87e97e4c1882a96 SHA-256: 0c6eb4c0d1d4bb8455bbca3a2f6475c934ab8f58d71c1b1fc9721193a24eb3b2
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file that contains an XFA form and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, which is known to target Adobe Reader. This exploit is used to achieve arbitrary code execution on the victim's machine. The embedded URL is likely part of the exploit chain or a secondary payload delivery mechanism.

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/