Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 66c6b68008dd09c2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

20.2 KB
MD5: a742d833fb7cfe1ad7509525b9238445 SHA-1: 375a32c6802a6d553379f144b30f9eee116ad672 SHA-256: 66c6b68008dd09c2ab1e2a13f26aff5a7ef4aa14780adb68fd5ca88a2a746c29
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution, indicating a malicious intent to compromise the user's system. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template, but its direct maliciousness is not confirmed.

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-36826 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36826
  • 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/