Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 618cbaa903cbbfc4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 60bdac6f4d8096296ad67030ae61a0f5 SHA-1: ef80a1cfed93565abfc781c0f8dbd613cb5d1d52 SHA-256: 618cbaa903cbbfc4c695bbdbce6ba80fcd165f35acce61150740b4e48ef77821
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF containing an XFA form, which is known to be vulnerable to exploits like CVE-2010-0188. Static analysis detected the exploitation of this vulnerability, indicating that the file is designed to execute arbitrary code upon opening in a vulnerable application. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template but does not appear to be a direct payload delivery mechanism.

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/