Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6dc501b5062b6ea5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: f859ecccd5394a1ce008f0739693d175 SHA-1: 752a3f84eda191db7e82833c013e8ec18c509259 SHA-256: 6dc501b5062b6ea5946d14843f89750adc8c39dc3322860d94fbc50260f68873
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, which is known to be used for arbitrary code execution. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent. The embedded URL is likely used to download a secondary payload, although the specific content of the payload is not discernible from the provided evidence.

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/

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