Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 342de22b10dbd37b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 900da10ae6a8e15cfca60d7b2c083929 SHA-1: 5bd9557a1e231b86e1cbb308a481d94cd6f4715f SHA-256: 342de22b10dbd37bab096616f86225cb4ca0cd3f4ed45506fe9442ae84e0b757
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file is a PDF that contains an embedded XFA form, which is known to be vulnerable to exploitation. Static analysis identified a critical heuristic firing for CVE-2010-0188, indicating exploitation of the LibTIFF vulnerability in Adobe Reader. This exploit likely leads to arbitrary code execution on the victim's machine.

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/