Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0d84e660f92b86ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

20.2 KB
MD5: 9cb7446c3beb21ec4df24b6b5b45034d SHA-1: e17ce3254b5a8c57f7c6f485e8a692decbe5d1a3 SHA-256: 0d84e660f92b86eee4339f7fcebecd4bb93f7ed0fae48ef40179b0f63e7c5d3c
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF 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, likely for downloading and executing a second-stage payload. The embedded URL is likely related to the exploit or payload delivery.

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-36826 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36826
  • 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/