Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 682bdda9182ec441…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.0 KB
MD5: f111ac87dbccd5593c4165714260a9cd SHA-1: 0ca01e7e7f35c6e56a068ba7a2410c54a15302b5 SHA-256: 682bdda9182ec441e8dcec7bac266469adb0c33babc344dcbbf9c99e35c136bb
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by ClamAV and an ML classifier. It contains an embedded XFA form and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, which is known to target Adobe Reader. This exploit likely leads to the execution of a second-stage 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/