Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5dce0ac0e6d1dc20…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 865988833669fbe5984f74157a61a803 SHA-1: 9a5d729e534c517d79f032ab6917567df7033677 SHA-256: 5dce0ac0e6d1dc20e0a81f7dbc66dad8d25b62881190c495e4403ed4c1b0bb35
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a critical detection for CVE-2010-0188, which is an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's XFA form processing. The embedded JavaScript, though obfuscated, likely contributes to the exploitation process. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template, but its reputation is unknown.

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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