Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 303934584ebb4db9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB
MD5: ca548e4ab2fb164ab77b4dde8c2f4efa SHA-1: a3898b1cbca0a718358f8e1bd087eb9aad13cff4 SHA-256: 303934584ebb4db953bff686475dcce6abd226721ce4bb0e4bd9b18c8a94ea3c
138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form with a critical heuristic firing for CVE-2010-0188, indicating an exploit targeting Adobe Reader. ClamAV also detected this file as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-90. The embedded artifact suggests the delivery of a secondary payload.

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
c54dd0015f26eb4b3c532de764bfced043444ead8e2c3d373b44f098f1dc15e8
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).