Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2f7d48039c66961d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.5 KB Created: qHFdTlfA Authoring application: gfhersdd
MD5: f1a71c428e42055070b64ef85a76e110 SHA-1: e0709d38ec774d61fc3b6e925c09e2aed2526d6d SHA-256: 2f7d48039c66961d6e6a6ccda0eebf1f283c8276852784ef85329bcaff52273e
82 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic indicating the presence of the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit is designed to allow arbitrary code execution upon opening the malicious PDF. No document body text was available for further contextual analysis.

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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
  • PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED
    The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PDFSyntaxError. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
  • 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_002_off000002e7.bin
76e925747e133db06a3c13e42160f3ce9d57ba7bee384f9a3688a363f2cfe2e3
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x2E7 59522 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).