Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 13e29792fabf832b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.3 KB
MD5: 2290f27bc7223feb7effb1a047cfc04a SHA-1: df6fbfecb0141ae491a466a1745526de91271d28 SHA-256: 13e29792fabf832bc38fddafd78c8290e525c6be2fe189904b1d769b24c3f394
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

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 is designed to execute arbitrary code, indicating the file's primary purpose is to compromise the user's system. 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.Dropped-78 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78
  • 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/