Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 129dae30adbdfd9a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.2 KB
MD5: adddb90ee7433e40f8eb940e81952469 SHA-1: 8d69e29164fcde70db805fd58f194228dd155de7 SHA-256: 129dae30adbdfd9a66e76fd4f27e2aa424d055cf6182f432991bf0c6a8f8dc9d
200 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF document that leverages XFA (XML Forms Architecture) to deliver a malicious payload. Heuristics indicate exploitation of CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component, which is often used in conjunction with XFA forms. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is present within the document's structure, suggesting it might be used in conjunction with the exploit. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly support the malicious nature of this file.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.Dropped-78 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78
  • XFA numeric character-table eval stager high PDF_XFA_NUMERIC_EVAL_STAGER
    PDF XFA initialize script reads numeric form data from rawValue, maps the values through a short character table, and evals the reconstructed stage. This is an exploit-kit staging technique even when the final decoded layer remains encoded.
  • 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/