Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7506771a0d43a862…

MALICIOUS

PDF

16.6 KB
MD5: ddabeb4e4bd441956feefd38e905e595 SHA-1: b0f440c9c68516621a57dc5110087fac495fe629 SHA-256: 7506771a0d43a8626af20901ad3ffc884108f9af6b39ffe78cbb54a3a2e9367d
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an XFA form that exploits CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader, allowing for arbitrary code execution. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious in this context, is associated with XFA templates. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection strongly indicate malicious intent.

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-36835 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-36835
  • 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/