Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6d0afdc827743e62…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: 2f893967177e06134fa7f39d8b467bbd SHA-1: 827373e1bfa164230165e6f046b966c8e44fadc6 SHA-256: 6d0afdc827743e620daba89efa23fa6364562566d1d47dc3bafb6dbd132346ba
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF that contains an XFA form, which is known to be vulnerable to CVE-2010-0188. Static analysis detected the exploit payload within the XFA stream. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is present within the document structure and could potentially be used in conjunction with the exploit.

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/