Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6e4174bba7365acd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 8925df2fa61922f26dc9b7a8e428ba3e SHA-1: 1ffd57736f2921833581cd532d48c3229e757436 SHA-256: 6e4174bba7365acdedc18200e90019ca192f29f69e916a05401b53b8598db2fd
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 detection for CVE-2010-0188, which exploits Adobe Reader's LibTIFF XFA image handling. This indicates the sample is designed to execute arbitrary code upon opening. The embedded URL, while benign in appearance, is associated with XFA templates and could be part of a larger exploit chain.

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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