Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1abcbec6205e5315…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB
MD5: 09496386876579b93b54a0b0bc8c54ee SHA-1: b1b6d678c99f0b9dfda3232f1f46d72465c68559 SHA-256: 1abcbec6205e531518117f8df6d2756a3571febc4cf9eeaf30d5e2f938dbc1f5
138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form with a malicious TIFF image payload, triggering the CVE-2010-0188 exploit. This indicates the document is designed to exploit a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader to execute arbitrary code. The embedded file, 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin', is likely the delivered payload.

Heuristics 5

  • Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit — CVE-2010-0188 critical CVE likely CVE_2010_0188
    PDF contains XFA image data with an inline crafted TIFF payload and shellcode/delivery markers. This is the data-bound variant of the CVE-2010-0188 Adobe Reader LibTIFF/XFA exploit shape.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-90 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-90
  • Embedded file low PDF_EMBEDDED
    PDF embeds a file attachment — could carry an executable or another weaponised document as a nested payload
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGE
    One or more files extracted from inside this sample matched static suspicious-content checks such as script obfuscation, encoded payload blobs, packed data, or execution/download terms.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0001.bin
633fe8a592ed8cc4762e016fd91b55cd0ea41e07f009d4f3d5cb136abfbecd57
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x5D 13473 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).