Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1765f90897a583fc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 1774baafc8af371799a263045f9c73b2 SHA-1: 6570434a7767a794ccb3b83067f3100754b53fb6 SHA-256: 1765f90897a583fce45bfa01eede665bda7abc84c7f8759af6e58b19b2f6f217
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit is known to be used for arbitrary code execution, likely to download and run a secondary payload. The presence of an embedded URL, though seemingly benign, is often used in conjunction with such exploits.

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/