Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 0eca148470f0b902…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.0 KB
MD5: 740391de46dd80f7d0630b1dfc08fcc2 SHA-1: c7495b55935a88a35215a39bc021e00684efe703 SHA-256: 0eca148470f0b9029e3e3fc822d72db6279e0242fb1c138fa26242f471d3b0d6
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 the execution of arbitrary code. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is associated with XFA templates and likely serves as a lure or part of the exploit chain. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further corroborate the malicious nature of the file.

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/