Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1d7efb2995f132e6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.6 KB
MD5: 69aca794fec7e55c368620d704c81286 SHA-1: 104db007698e3586c5e2aa42823dc42e9a02374e SHA-256: 1d7efb2995f132e68a3920730733cc87e2111bf71391b367c79966ae3be76c0d
158 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is a PDF document identified by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10, indicating exploitation of CVE-2010-0188. An embedded script payload was also detected within a PDF stream. The document body contains obfuscated and unreadable content, further suggesting malicious intent rather than legitimate document content. The primary attack vector is the exploitation of a known PDF vulnerability to execute a payload.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • Embedded script payload in PDF stream medium PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD
    PDF stream bytes contain an HTML/XFA <script> tag without accompanying Windows shell-execution primitives — common in accessible XFA forms but worth surfacing for analyst review.
  • 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_obj0006.bin
40dec8cc1f3c4eef93df39bdd5bcfbe651e57de2e503723a654b7047ce913779
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 6 at offset 0x412 33689 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).