PDF malware analysis — malicious · 608ffbf0ace04c0a

MALICIOUS

PDF

28.6 KB

MD5: e13c2d1555d2b86ad28e887d585fcb46 SHA-1: ae6396f8996e8c6f25e4775697f0d04dc35c0d82 SHA-256: 608ffbf0ace04c0a0b14871fa96d22f5e356313d92dd59a85cbce66dac1e42fb

200 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file that contains an XFA form, which is known to be a vector for exploits. Heuristics indicate a critical vulnerability (CVE-2010-0188) related to LibTIFF and XFA image exploitation, suggesting the file attempts to execute arbitrary code. The embedded URL, while benign-looking, is part of the XFA structure and could potentially be used in conjunction with the exploit.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

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-36825 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36825
XFA numeric character-table eval stager high PDF_XFA_NUMERIC_EVAL_STAGER

PDF XFA initialize script reads numeric form data from rawValue, maps the values through a short character table, and evals the reconstructed stage. This is an exploit-kit staging technique even when the final decoded layer remains encoded.
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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