Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5e2cc119898b429c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: a73cb7699daed642fa9f1409d9d5a5c3 SHA-1: 33ce369424d690f4f754019c66a921ac977766c7 SHA-256: 5e2cc119898b429c4b7bad2a37f3ec7ff23ce34e6cfe350b88471a7b8438edaa
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a critical detection for CVE-2010-0188, an Adobe Reader exploit targeting XFA forms. The ML classifier also strongly flagged the file. The exploit is likely used to achieve arbitrary code execution, enabling the download of additional malicious content. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious, is associated with XFA templates, reinforcing the exploit vector.

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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