Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e209f26d2f9150a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 9565ea90629825bbb314fa0f00de27af SHA-1: 5b38ce8d0fe5c1e4c42df7b49ba5caeb85e4c97a SHA-256: 0e209f26d2f9150a81416ebf3a22495e8faa0d8a40accdac59afbbffe6afa42c
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 ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains an exploit for CVE-2010-0188, targeting Adobe Reader's XFA form processing. This exploit is designed to achieve arbitrary code execution, commonly used to download and run additional malware. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is present within the context of 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/

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