Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14be50756d0ee4cc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 2034c29c58835c2fb9ac1da8cc2f44a6 SHA-1: 67a71c903c81b337546299b035bab8319e737688 SHA-256: 14be50756d0ee4ccb812dd1205678aa6033253cc5a2d97ccecb67b9e155ca70b
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file that contains an embedded XFA form, which is leveraged by the CVE-2010-0188 exploit. This exploit targets a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF processing to achieve code execution. The embedded URL is likely related to the exploit's functionality.

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/