Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0cd61f7d2640fb07…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 1ffbaa2fcbab50420b67c32920bbdc6f SHA-1: 2286107dc26d71987ac3c2513b201824e7b9835c SHA-256: 0cd61f7d2640fb073b5b34f0f958b9de3bcee8101e7b78730167babbf9e01432
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 engines, including ClamAV and a machine learning classifier. It contains an XFA form and exploits CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component, to achieve code execution. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template, but its direct maliciousness is not confirmed by the provided evidence.

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/