Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7118cae5ca398ba1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: 80df012b3bfc617d3a560891b510edf1 SHA-1: c72459a6d9674774d85e8bab26dceb5006c7e7a3 SHA-256: 7118cae5ca398ba1ee3d7fdc2d32eb6a57cf0c03697bcb24925019c47a057e95
162 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 finding for CVE-2010-0188, an Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit. The ML classifier also flagged it with high confidence. The embedded URL is likely part of the exploit chain.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED
    The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PSEOF. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
  • 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/