Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5f6050f965511da4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: a4ace282609a0fc6011b5931a3d01631 SHA-1: 989407654881c427d85ea36bd5da6eb9ac51d6ca SHA-256: 5f6050f965511da4c4e84e134523f0c74f5463fc1c73bc411ce5cfbd36c4ecf2
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file that exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of XFA forms. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution, likely to download and run a secondary payload. The embedded URL is likely related to the exploit's functionality.

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/