Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8360d5808c978fd7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.2 KB
MD5: 1cdeb7f9ba9a92e069d6c2035241460d SHA-1: aac7f491fad05a07275147c6949ae148a119bdf6 SHA-256: 8360d5808c978fd77cfac6c321918add433bb9eef37b654f70cd6b1d59040a27
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious due to the exploitation of CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms. The embedded URL, while not directly malicious, is associated with XFA templates. The ML classifier and ClamAV detection further confirm its malicious nature, indicating it likely serves as a dropper for further malicious activity.

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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