Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 79f8f128b3118455…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: d3ad2aa8406ad26d410052f705f39708 SHA-1: 3c387d298f68989fbb14f56b1ba9a39206c6a0bd SHA-256: 79f8f128b311845528a0d12438850fdf1b5a3bc91fea225b9c8656ae5a99118a
162 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains XFA (XML Forms Architecture) content and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, an exploit targeting LibTIFF within Adobe Reader. This indicates the file is designed to execute arbitrary code upon opening. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the XFA structure and could be used in conjunction with the exploit.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 5

  • 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
  • PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED
    The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PSEOF. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
  • 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/