Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 633f21a883777498…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.0 KB
MD5: 9c9139c21855db541edee65a89f1d42d SHA-1: 38a3f8e4b17d0eb87430a373a3fd08d905b59f8b SHA-256: 633f21a883777498b9208bc584ba68843f9c57c661c9da282ee09aadd6603bf9
162 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF document identified as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a critical finding for CVE-2010-0188, which is an Adobe Reader exploit targeting XFA forms. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template, but its direct maliciousness is unknown. The exploit's purpose is to achieve client-side code execution.

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-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
  • PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED
    The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PSEOF. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
  • 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/