Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 772b5b85221ef172…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.3 KB
MD5: 39b990a8347a6cc7a534819b6fdb541b SHA-1: 7e24e5db8a7b902ec4538dc6480cb118c9df9236 SHA-256: 772b5b85221ef172ab10797b9d9759079e169a682d4cd68cd2f3ec078c03d5cb
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF document identified as malicious by multiple engines, including ClamAV and a machine learning classifier. It contains an XFA form and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, which is known to target Adobe Reader's LibTIFF handling. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution, likely to download and run a second-stage payload. The embedded URL is likely related to the exploit or payload delivery.

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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