Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 18c588feb3580358…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: eb9d7eb099b6cb5185cba84f50bc9f1b SHA-1: c51571ae57d9c2d9c3158d6a240fedba5a7a5ca2 SHA-256: 18c588feb3580358a489745b834d6685fe55a7fec65ff4171037c990646421d5
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit is designed to achieve arbitrary code execution within the context of the vulnerable application. The presence of an embedded URL suggests a potential secondary payload download or C2 communication.

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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