Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 67954d33b6255386…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 5849033c5b6a377601dbdcd55c1e7dfd SHA-1: a61b8b4009733e2097b9c8e957e1c76adafc98dd SHA-256: 67954d33b625538601419360a2818b04ca1c70dacf696e0e103a66862ef80d99
160 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 detection for CVE-2010-0188, which is an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's XFA form processing. The embedded XFA script, though obfuscated, is associated with this exploit. The presence of an embedded URL further suggests a download or redirection mechanism for a secondary payload.

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/