Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14d1714e5a1cfdd7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 3d8b71a243052c3aa12fcff4bbc88568 SHA-1: 8c0f14de815d0178d10b1b8d9f8db86c710294a7 SHA-256: 14d1714e5a1cfdd7d127590b98a4c4df7bc58018b99679d1f650f97de5ea1ed1
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF that triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF XFA image handling. This exploit is designed to achieve code execution on the victim's machine. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is present within the document structure and could potentially be used by 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/