Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 76bb1f20b61a87b3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: d52b4c6a4a219ee7d3be32bfde8f3370 SHA-1: 121ba5f622c3b6fcbe398bea7aadca787a503dd8 SHA-256: 76bb1f20b61a87b3fbb9c0e5b86df66cc613dad6ec3a8b54a5d166488c215195
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 LibTIFF XFA image exploit. This exploit is designed to achieve client execution by leveraging vulnerabilities in how Adobe Reader processes XFA forms. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the XFA structure and may 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/

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