Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7672d63d504fa726…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.0 KB
MD5: 750568200de18c351e80fea446d3792c SHA-1: 2242c08880ff21d9440de92ed116d8998b4f3577 SHA-256: 7672d63d504fa7262fc9760b7c5eb7363e27dccaef506c8b2785da38e73657a2
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by multiple heuristics, including a critical detection for CVE-2010-0188, an Adobe Reader XFA exploit. This exploit is designed to achieve code execution, likely to download and run a secondary payload. The embedded URL is likely related to the exploit or a subsequent download stage.

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/