Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 74d0ec5d2181925f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: f32f11d0b76fcbf23f96de0052e2ee62 SHA-1: 4d3ca2a6fa93ff83dbdbc8b535300fcc4f692b3f SHA-256: 74d0ec5d2181925f9c1c96ba5e3888b6a99f2bd7c2bb0373137dd952bf1711f6
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 finding for CVE-2010-0188, which is an Adobe Reader exploit targeting XFA forms. The ML classifier also strongly flagged the file. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is associated with XFA templates, further supporting the exploit vector.

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/