Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 89484fb9fa8c81d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

24.0 KB
MD5: d2c71657a6df21eec3a8282f626ef8bf SHA-1: b3d877e802e9724f9d0df1af1209e9c870c4cba3 SHA-256: 89484fb9fa8c81d595da91530011d23874e277e8cce34f1c9125f4beedd84b7f
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains XFA (XML Forms Architecture) and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, which is known to target Adobe Reader. This exploit allows for the execution of arbitrary code, indicating the file's primary purpose is likely to download and execute a secondary malicious payload. The embedded URL, while seemingly benign, is part of the exploit's structure.

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/