Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1663b8ba18c322ee…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 4b97b5baa05b030d5539a95668fc0e61 SHA-1: b799d872c1993fdc0665a0d0338c8a7a34d4b38a SHA-256: 1663b8ba18c322ee8e4435937903b549bd782c29795ed4155d9562a3890c903a
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains an XFA form and exploits CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component, to achieve code execution. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is present within the document 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.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/