Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1628d3bfe8bfeffd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.0 KB
MD5: 86bc0ec57873be272c70717184372f87 SHA-1: b5934f82194aca23b0b8ba09f6c46842f84effb8 SHA-256: 1628d3bfe8bfeffd61257507d6bbd5de9e4e2847cc92c543a80607b696b123eb
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF document identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains an XFA form that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, which is known to allow arbitrary code execution. The embedded URL is likely part of the exploit chain or a secondary payload delivery mechanism.

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/