Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5dc034005236d34d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

14.4 KB
MD5: 96ba18531ffc895d488516ad9f6b837a SHA-1: b3da73587e8b636cb77ecbfaf2913b8b2e420663 SHA-256: 5dc034005236d34d966dbd0447e29e1c1ca200c3c8d64d77c4f2abffad5f0d74
200 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

This PDF file is identified as malicious due to the exploitation of CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms. The presence of an XFA numeric eval stager and ML classification further support its malicious nature. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is associated with XFA templates and could be part of the exploit chain.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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.Dropped-78 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-78
  • XFA numeric character-table eval stager high PDF_XFA_NUMERIC_EVAL_STAGER
    PDF XFA initialize script reads numeric form data from rawValue, maps the values through a short character table, and evals the reconstructed stage. This is an exploit-kit staging technique even when the final decoded layer remains encoded.
  • 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/