Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 12852f2be5b34c5a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: c6d6d7bfa1ba41eebd37087199b13433 SHA-1: 64628fbd9fcce9cc8f74ea969b4181830b2aca3d SHA-256: 12852f2be5b34c5ac0137c8d23a2d9eca933124896be29ae5e9884cf0e060bc6
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 multiple heuristics, including a critical detection for CVE-2010-0188, an Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit. The presence of XFA form elements and the exploit detection strongly suggest that the file is designed to execute arbitrary code upon opening in a vulnerable application. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the XFA structure and could potentially be used in conjunction with 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/