Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7017dc3beda424e3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 83863c2d23c34f1f5b92b0f3221c3f05 SHA-1: 4256d1026f5c65853101d7eefead5bbdcdfe10af SHA-256: 7017dc3beda424e34de9f41d48f0f93261a9c162ff6aee07053b57a29fcc833b
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file that contains an embedded XFA form, which is exploited by CVE-2010-0188. This vulnerability allows for the execution of arbitrary code on the victim's machine. The embedded URL is likely part of the exploit chain or a secondary payload delivery mechanism.

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/