Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 14ebc6c056dfad70…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 45d70bf2a7f5733a0a585ad10052a5ec SHA-1: 9711d564959a4c34ffda42790e747fdb44f6f49c SHA-256: 14ebc6c056dfad70aef42c16ed4c0c7ae460ba488632a448bdd8075478584ed5
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF containing an XFA form, which is known to be vulnerable to CVE-2010-0188. The heuristic firings and ClamAV detection strongly indicate exploitation of this vulnerability for client execution. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template, but its reputation is unknown.

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/