Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 182c753bfd6646c2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 40c9636c21ba79025ccaa4db959cce77 SHA-1: 68cf6ef85d7f7aa5b2c371b7ee181efe1ca56c77 SHA-256: 182c753bfd6646c20d7d7009ae0fbd927209ddfa0baf22aa96175b767e0ae557
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

The sample is a PDF file 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 JavaScript, though obfuscated, likely facilitates the download and execution of a secondary payload from the provided URL.

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/