Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8394c525978fb1db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 81fa420ce6ee58f445a2e14c0569189f SHA-1: 0c13b28e753e7b01285175f325bc2435f8ee9b3c SHA-256: 8394c525978fb1dbc30fe054148b539285504b3172ac42d51c401625e7b8a7a9
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 ClamAV and an ML classifier. Critical heuristics indicate exploitation of CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms. The embedded URL is likely related to the XFA template, but the primary threat stems from the exploit itself, which is designed to execute arbitrary code.

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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