Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 70dc6cd4493cb0a3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.0 KB
MD5: a6e14c07476bef08818ae73037f56f77 SHA-1: fc49d823751aeca0c3bd7e033270516bcf8eee4d SHA-256: 70dc6cd4493cb0a3f00445b2255393a3eca45ca97f299a00b7e89e1d2936a427
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a critical detection for CVE-2010-0188, which is an Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit. This indicates the file is designed to exploit a known vulnerability to achieve code execution on the victim's system. The embedded URL, while benign in reputation, is part of the XFA template structure.

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/