Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6180d0dc770179a1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: bc3681ea8f468becff04ca24a5f55717 SHA-1: 3d16e24edec9297ebfd91ebc27a4e873f0ea3a8c SHA-256: 6180d0dc770179a138ec336b43a9ca70ddf566fc893e07d97c6b7ea44697e9a2
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains an XFA form and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, which is known to target Adobe Reader. This exploit is likely used to download and execute a secondary payload, as indicated by the embedded URL.

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/