Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 723dbc2595b377bc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 2525f3169beb96c61c90d8e866bc343c SHA-1: 345e08cd04678f7d3bca8e1715f6da23c7d74bda SHA-256: 723dbc2595b377bc1706b8c96d49bf02adfa0f9b3455cc45bee4d4a1f87b8520
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, which is known to target Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit is designed to achieve arbitrary code execution, typically to download and run additional malicious content. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the XFA structure and could potentially be used in conjunction with the 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/