Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 6ee9e2c35c8c9de4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: e029540af12743f9cbe2e3ce1ea0d6e8 SHA-1: 43c3538e5ad18cb4b8a56e95b3f9ec9dbd5e1cad SHA-256: 6ee9e2c35c8c9de4b9b0c7eb5578ca9ec2a3720eb71516fc2be42a4fd008b5e1
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF that triggers critical heuristics for CVE-2010-0188, an Adobe Reader exploit targeting XFA forms. This exploit is designed to achieve arbitrary code execution, which is often used to download and run additional malware. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is present within the context of an exploit.

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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