Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0dc3e102ac2ea5e0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.0 KB
MD5: e2164fecc927b702d690bf7cd668018b SHA-1: 2fb8163c2b515338e38ca969337ec94679c2ab7d SHA-256: 0dc3e102ac2ea5e08c857cd9d07b1d54e7b1b53177e163944f206c819e9cc0fc
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file that contains an embedded XFA form, which is leveraged to exploit the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely to download and run a secondary payload. The embedded URL is associated with XFA templates, further supporting the exploit vector.

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/

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