Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 32c7759d5772006c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

3.8 KB Authoring application: rxode (via va)
MD5: 3cab45e9c681774c8869b591404f830e SHA-1: df4af3c3fb1bab8e9f34248e4d07d6cc3691a975 SHA-256: 32c7759d5772006c49fe2cb2ae2ce236aed8a5721be54d2bf987d1bf303ebb31
98 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

This PDF file exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader, likely to achieve arbitrary code execution. The exploit targets XFA forms and embedded TIFF images. An embedded file, 'embedded_file_obj0041.bin', was also detected, suggesting a downloader or secondary payload.

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 script payload in PDF stream medium PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD
    PDF stream bytes contain an HTML/XFA <script> tag without accompanying Windows shell-execution primitives — common in accessible XFA forms but worth surfacing for analyst review.
  • 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_obj0041.bin
1789d7c880052235821bc8cb182c0a1639bd61609edf46f7dbe9bf7c9e5febd4
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0x53 9846 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).