Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e58de499b43a7f3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 4611f12d1eb0c5616be0f56be654ee64 SHA-1: 19c011797161fa0b2913e761102832b7b06c7d37 SHA-256: 7e58de499b43a7f34d769ad8585747c12732839f2c61406833a260276e93befe
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains embedded XFA content and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, which is known to target Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to achieve arbitrary code execution, likely for downloading and running a secondary malicious payload. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the XFA structure and may be used in the exploit chain.

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/