Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6cca95af8554f79e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

20.2 KB
MD5: 8e3d025ed399b2ef95b244d3a012b552 SHA-1: be84fc7c0e50644db71986a34f313a0c1933364a SHA-256: 6cca95af8554f79ed7b913a842366f2abd252aac7956a830f3ef380f7a9e27e6
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The file is identified as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a critical detection for CVE-2010-0188, an Adobe Reader exploit targeting XFA forms. The ML classifier also strongly flags the sample. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is associated with XFA templates and may be a lure or part of the exploit chain. The exploit's nature suggests it's designed to download and execute 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-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/