Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 686e0c9c30eee5f4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: e86cbfe3f5088089f7ee0992986038e0 SHA-1: 8c2ae6d55765814868b5c501aa8e6ac94e2192e5 SHA-256: 686e0c9c30eee5f4599c573030d9f6bbb95d33cf7103e81e6957d27a6a4c4948
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 and a machine learning classifier. It specifically targets the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms, indicating an attempt to exploit a client-side vulnerability for code execution. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the XFA template structure and may be used in conjunction with the exploit.

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/