Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6a3ebc32df0c5ebf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 557926d8a049d8feb2559d3f8de3e502 SHA-1: 96f4ef9288d1db55d9e4577024a4830c01d5a1ba SHA-256: 6a3ebc32df0c5ebfd0785916eb956d22afdb29c1bb9adb41c7dc72a8425c1b5d
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 CVE-2010-0188, an Adobe Reader exploit targeting XFA forms. The ML classifier also strongly flagged this PDF as malicious. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is present within the document structure, and the exploit's nature suggests it's designed to download and execute a secondary payload.

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/