Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2782b895e7776868…

MALICIOUS

PDF

3.4 KB
MD5: 5a866f90b369057c223860e907e408ec SHA-1: 51ed14c4af14a371736b2778c805572a7ac79a5d SHA-256: 2782b895e77768680cb5eaf64656ca3ec067bbc10e8c7253f1e28815c85c5c93
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating it exploits a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to LibTIFF and XFA images. The exploit is embedded within a decompressed PDF stream. The attack pattern is a direct exploit delivery.

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.
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • ASCII85Decode filter (with exploit indicators) low PDF_FILTER_85
    ASCII85 encoding filter present alongside exploit delivery indicators — uncommon outside of obfuscation
  • 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
stream_000_off000001e9.bin
93fec26f283b58b77c4557a608caef850e4f81edfc74c996642937faf9898e75
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x1E9 13469 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).