Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 237df3a42597ff0b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.5 KB Created: qsdfsdf Authoring application: val
MD5: d62674115aff6f49289bba0200d21ca0 SHA-1: 6221830ebf29142477f0045dd90d360e13fd7c8c SHA-256: 237df3a42597ff0b30c02bab40b5d6f802bee64d8cd931a168d60a21c31e1752
218 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 User Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form that exploits CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader. This vulnerability allows for arbitrary code execution when the document is opened. An embedded script payload was also detected, further indicating malicious intent. The file was identified by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10.

Heuristics 7

  • 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: 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
f9b990158472811d1dd614f82cc7770745ce29ae1241a62f65d14db286ee5d9f
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 6 at offset 0x429 33484 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).