Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0e26e529249961ca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: 5dba263133fd7bde6f9ac8b4548902ba SHA-1: ebd21ba61f5978760d1c35bc19ea303a2678aca3 SHA-256: 0e26e529249961ca84ff5ab976841d773d9b712d8a67f75bd12fdce91bea0462
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious due to critical heuristic firings indicating an exploit for CVE-2010-0188 within an XFA form. This vulnerability allows for arbitrary code execution when the PDF is opened in a vulnerable version of Adobe Reader. The embedded URL, while benign in reputation, is part of the XFA template structure.

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/