Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0ccf4b90c2bf8d81…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: ee35b2b323c1a748ecaa7329a18eac16 SHA-1: 50b6ebcdac38563d9f702d96737f71b12fe5c89d SHA-256: 0ccf4b90c2bf8d81f0aed7b6711d44cfdca1c4fe75ef359dcdc81561bd4af1ab
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by multiple engines, including ClamAV and an ML classifier. Critical heuristics indicate exploitation of CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms. The embedded URL, while likely benign in isolation, is present within the context of an 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/