Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 17d2447ac20805d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: 804c5eb749ba13bda2c38cb57a59148a SHA-1: f9a9e08914b515e2cc8dfe68e392ef09928a0a74 SHA-256: 17d2447ac20805d76fcadc7a48e0a99cc0012c001291b1796838e9990bf4e28d
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains an embedded XFA form that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component, to achieve code execution. The embedded URL is likely part of the exploit 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/

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