Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 20d084d36094e5fc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

1.8 KB
MD5: 249f72114552ce9c7a4e38b638c5455f SHA-1: ab85eba3e75a658ef941feefe3108fcaa5a937db SHA-256: 20d084d36094e5fc405fc720bb0b0d9a3dbac053563beeb5bfc94346f84a7368
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF document contains an embedded file and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, which targets a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of XFA forms and TIFF images. This indicates the document is designed to execute arbitrary code upon opening in a vulnerable application. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable.

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
28f639f16ecbd7377dd3acf9605c4a9f5f00067c54c20fca5d3c6ae375eac465
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x50 12900 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).