Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0cec0a7848d09e7a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: e62f452ec6062a017eb3429a245517ba SHA-1: 16de873497371dedb404925bd6ddb0a9e37aebcd SHA-256: 0cec0a7848d09e7a8ead3e5b558c527b9856aac2ba5cb6f3e7094372748f5bcb
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 heuristics, including a critical detection for CVE-2010-0188, an Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit. This exploit is used for client execution, likely to download and run a secondary payload. The embedded URL, while benign in appearance, is associated with XFA templates and may be a decoy or part of the exploit chain.

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/