Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6dcc259d02377e4e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: b1d99c28928983a9a0b1d9f3bde081cc SHA-1: e13d0d91631e67580e6b5516937a34fea0df3841 SHA-256: 6dcc259d02377e4e3f7be2eed13ef3fba0bea23ce8508d26d05543cff685eeab
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF document identified as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a critical finding for CVE-2010-0188, an Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit. This exploit allows for client-side code execution. The presence of an embedded URL suggests a potential download or command-and-control channel. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further confirm its malicious nature.

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/