Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6dee8343a8a4655e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: 02a4d44a55516b6d7055f5ca6ec09a5b SHA-1: b46c9ad2225ce44e243c328dc9f9b7cadba2e690 SHA-256: 6dee8343a8a4655e456b7f023765bf5af93fb198bc8cce1d4f3a909861d29376
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF document that contains an XFA form, which is known to be vulnerable to exploits. Heuristics indicate a critical vulnerability (CVE-2010-0188) related to LibTIFF and XFA exploitation. This suggests the document is designed to exploit Adobe Reader to achieve code execution, likely delivered via spearphishing.

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/