Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0d97e8ec4f8d7a13…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.0 KB
MD5: 9bc5040f026190b7f6dea7f5d387b8eb SHA-1: 0db3e90868f344eaa2adf5326accd25d881eb7a2 SHA-256: 0d97e8ec4f8d7a135b826be193aa155710a3f975dc32bcd437045352e300c6a9
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF identified as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a critical detection for CVE-2010-0188, which is an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component within XFA forms. The ML classifier also strongly flagged the file. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template, suggesting a potential download or configuration source for the 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/