Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5b80b6b5df48a71b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: c85bcefbbe740a2a794b4b9a69dcd584 SHA-1: 9d7e0f5e93f712a6e6e733948745e8971f46f1d6 SHA-256: 5b80b6b5df48a71b9c2b60337d085cecb438224507419a0985c78e2ba29bfd0b
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, which is known to target Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious in this context, is associated with XFA templates.

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/