Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 348a718ee5825e30…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB
MD5: 4774206c017fa4ec92e4ca6610b91247 SHA-1: 67d8ffa8172c7953ab3570ed7a1c937094102452 SHA-256: 348a718ee5825e305d9d3bf2fb970c044579396fb3b4498b4c66716233c10b97
138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF document that contains an embedded file and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit. This indicates that the document is designed to exploit a vulnerability in Adobe Reader to gain arbitrary code execution. The embedded file is likely 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
d91d91290c6aa6692697c44afbca0e9023075bb730d61d1fbf52e5a33fa23a37
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).