Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 17d8e2ea6731acba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 77acce78132eb4ec504377213d069918 SHA-1: d86fd1ddb191252b697b474ae26b016a8e157192 SHA-256: 17d8e2ea6731acbac61006eb048635c6180f6d2426cd5d8662f6ed774fc3b15d
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 XFA form and exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component to achieve code execution. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template but does not appear to be a direct 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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