Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 605219b6593d31cc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

20.1 KB
MD5: 56f4ccced313734cc922ffaeec2cd63a SHA-1: 466c00e9891e67ca31280e98ac34e23f904a37fb SHA-256: 605219b6593d31cc5c36fcefd48be9f3f48c4d401051cb42707da0429d4c1af9
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a critical detection for CVE-2010-0188, an Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit. This indicates the file is designed to exploit a known vulnerability to achieve code execution on the victim's system. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is associated with XFA templates, further supporting 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-36826 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36826
  • 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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