Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5cb0b7cdcaf4d31c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 3562ed19a2c238590352e72a323d359c SHA-1: 7260bbebdeef3f11d1b0e92eb238ee1a396f5563 SHA-256: 5cb0b7cdcaf4d31c1f2daad1bc8e872ed95605daaa4e4e8fef9056ed2ba19d17
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file is a PDF document that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit allows for the execution of arbitrary code, indicated by the critical heuristic firing. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is present within the document's structure.

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/