Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 11d960863dc78e40…

MALICIOUS

PDF

20.2 KB
MD5: 17c382b86615ef3cf91f18508c8f95ee SHA-1: 24f3f3fbd62acd2af8e35563ff4978c5ed95a5b3 SHA-256: 11d960863dc78e4041b5ff5d1571ce3334c9740dc490945bd1a05f1e0916c71d
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, which is known to target Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution, likely to download and run a secondary payload. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is present within the context of a malicious 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-36826 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36826
  • 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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