Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 32a889ed72f08391…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB
MD5: d59196de40bdeb073b65434564bc8934 SHA-1: 819f8d665ca310fa3a8d3af0dfe8240e76e29f5b SHA-256: 32a889ed72f0839123a60883b80034dedfceb540aae4e224100e742b14d5f8ca
138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file contains an embedded malicious object and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit for Adobe Reader. This indicates the file is designed to exploit a known vulnerability to deliver a secondary payload. The ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature.

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
be0449fe1d44e05c2f4585b1e24e6bc23b8ae8a2173af806456243369836a460
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x5D 13415 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).