Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 74419fe9740fe541…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: 51a786f41bb6f2bcb9b1d1562fbef3af SHA-1: 86465c7d8bdbbff5233ec0b2e44f994965498a0a SHA-256: 74419fe9740fe54154ffc57351828a129797f91402a6db0ef8e9a120829ec351
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF sample contains an embedded XFA form that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit is designed to achieve arbitrary code execution on the victim's machine. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is associated with XFA templates and could be part of a larger exploit chain.

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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