Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 17c6b4de502b7b7e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

28.6 KB
MD5: bef565f2c6f271cc0483e0c70a9ae4ce SHA-1: 27e330cae6c88f4f48853a0442a28c2789757ab0 SHA-256: 17c6b4de502b7b7eb5472c53ba3d386981384f68b09ec2ed05aa0a0bade5b50c
200 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF that triggers multiple critical heuristics related to XFA form exploitation, specifically CVE-2010-0188. This indicates the document is designed to exploit a vulnerability in Adobe Reader to gain execution. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template but is not directly actionable as a payload delivery mechanism.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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-36825 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36825
  • XFA numeric character-table eval stager high PDF_XFA_NUMERIC_EVAL_STAGER
    PDF XFA initialize script reads numeric form data from rawValue, maps the values through a short character table, and evals the reconstructed stage. This is an exploit-kit staging technique even when the final decoded layer remains encoded.
  • 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/