Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6df96f9501e96ea2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.3 KB
MD5: 7a34289e4677ef2a0edf5c7d6c87121e SHA-1: 9c493ad82dc4c55bd778021cb2bf032c22b73af1 SHA-256: 6df96f9501e96ea2b06018fc33e5aa2401cf4300c0d8875bf2175b73d1856afe
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by ClamAV and a machine learning classifier. It contains an exploit for CVE-2010-0188 targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component, specifically within an XFA form. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely to download and run a secondary payload.

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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