Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 be8057ed369fe990…

MALICIOUS

PDF

31.9 KB
MD5: 39eaa79e88eb8e1bec5159fb83ba3d0b SHA-1: 294471c5ca72f033036421a470aede0c365439cb SHA-256: be8057ed369fe99069c02a46b43b70c75879c650ad6eb7bebfd758f6f4d8dd1c
158 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution T1566.001 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. ClamAV also detected it as Js.Exploit.HTML-30. The embedded URL, while benign in reputation, is part of the XFA structure. The primary attack vector is likely phishing, leveraging the exploit to deliver a secondary payload.

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: Js.Exploit.HTML-30 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Js.Exploit.HTML-30
  • 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/