Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ed60398fcf56f2b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

1.8 KB
MD5: 52d84c304baecde81ef322d84784bbc7 SHA-1: c7ac7fc085b6493017186444f3af7022fdd396a7 SHA-256: 1ed60398fcf56f2b2d2c840aad031fabacf64f279cdeb9ab750b476ae6885a50
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit in Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely to download and run a second-stage payload. The embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin' is the artifact associated with this exploit.

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • 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
8a9a2a41aa644a1d01820f12d22267bbf1ba45383201da7aefed72dabf6a97bc
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x50 12926 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).