Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2dc0732b1b18d8db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

8.5 KB
MD5: b39f91cb64d53196a813834ea398bd63 SHA-1: 63c74a38e8016c7a1d35f017150b019004b3e70e SHA-256: 2dc0732b1b18d8db64d7dad216c0df98d9367d7af506888b7c4478f0cbad4b77
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF document contains an embedded file and triggers the critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating it exploits a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely to download and run a second-stage payload. The embedded file and XFA form further support the exploit delivery mechanism.

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
144209a3944f84052eb7c4cbbf62b0dcd2d97fd228f0d3910f31d06d92f83875
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x58 13345 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).