Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 10805080b488dfaa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: dc0ed04e4ab324ca1f4d49cc86940ef3 SHA-1: a7c29626beaa25e7a2f145eea7d5fccb75478284 SHA-256: 10805080b488dfaa2046dabe08c52e220d176a2362e3e5e7595a8b7423f8831f
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF sample contains an XFA form and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating exploitation of Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution, likely delivered via spearphishing. The embedded URL, while benign in reputation, is present within the document 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/