Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2c6bd34bcc763b9c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB
MD5: 092d304468f958f4c3da5b533910ac78 SHA-1: 0e939f1e550581e6955bb7713a8c5378ca6b3a52 SHA-256: 2c6bd34bcc763b9cbc7818da70e2aef468fecca28c623f5116e3ba13ac8f8d5b
138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded object and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. ClamAV also detected it as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-90. The embedded file, 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin', is likely the malicious payload delivered by the exploit.

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-90 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-90
  • 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
d291ddf23e85e31d98a92fe56437f1fbb5d8be4f1e88cdb02bb846891dea451b
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x5D 13473 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).