Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 640efe079ce8ed78…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: b56a8d53ba49a2f9a0f48aed004e92d8 SHA-1: 01e0ab8bc788656d1a414c21ca01c3dba2e73043 SHA-256: 640efe079ce8ed78e7fdc3af643bcfc02bb1ab19b6103dc7d324fc48925e4aa3
162 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a critical finding for the CVE-2010-0188 exploit targeting Adobe Reader's XFA forms. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template, but the primary threat stems from the exploit itself, which is designed to achieve 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/