Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0cdea3c222dbc8d4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: f68ef40e8c000514ea63cbe5d9ff7640 SHA-1: f4ec28484c50e161450eaf9d4a891202c994b69c SHA-256: 0cdea3c222dbc8d4e71a7c7434544616ca849dbcfd347870ce183e4a57215f6c
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 CVE-2010-0188, an Adobe Reader exploit targeting XFA forms. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is present within the document structure. The exploit's purpose is to gain initial code execution, likely to download and execute a further stage.

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/