Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 845211d9ad22d251…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.1 KB
MD5: 014964e20cca4d0d7be16b07fbad9d76 SHA-1: 44ad70b66cd677cae58bc3cf9cf28f60cf4ab390 SHA-256: 845211d9ad22d2516bcfa1c45ac01638392562cd0791dbceba6c28604cf688bb
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit is known to facilitate arbitrary code execution, often used to download and run additional malicious content. The presence of an embedded URL, though seemingly benign, is suspicious in the context of an exploit.

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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