Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6cf9c66958a4acb4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: 99d432cb1f55963a2f76a3d206b462f5 SHA-1: c3edabb65aa61a6f8572631921d4ea125153ae8c SHA-256: 6cf9c66958a4acb49b0b37eba72eec0c88fdf67a46707882233fa651ebc419b1
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file that contains an XFA form, which is exploited by CVE-2010-0188. This vulnerability allows for the execution of arbitrary code, likely to download and run a second-stage payload. The embedded URL is likely related to the exploit or payload delivery.

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/