Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5def9e48ab5dfe33…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: 38b19342a436a3b141d6190677834add SHA-1: 84dbda9809b64553bc41bcd20cbcac08c89dbf99 SHA-256: 5def9e48ab5dfe3386387a35e79013ff90973ef82246ccf9b040d6bc116e14e4
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit allows for client-side code execution, which is often used to download and run additional malicious content. The presence of an embedded URL, though benign in this case, is typical for such exploits.

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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