Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2bcf42f75f700824…

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.5 KB
MD5: 06b18b085d0030dcd84a478e492c90e5 SHA-1: 0dd636f0ba89089d88f9ea2a6c5da82416442290 SHA-256: 2bcf42f75f7008245970b22dc686cc4b0b649f6383795eb0dadd15602059675d
188 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The file is a PDF document identified as malicious by multiple engines, including ClamAV, which specifically flags it as 'Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10'. Static analysis also detected an embedded script payload and an embedded file, indicating the document is designed to exploit a vulnerability and deliver a secondary malicious artifact. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

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
9a8abfce52b850aeb2f0923e3acde51c8085e1791ebceb450de7d77836fcf128
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 6 at offset 0x411 33727 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).