Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 34ee084049e2e413…

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.5 KB Created: qsdfsdf Authoring application: val
MD5: 2d984758680a5371a145ec2f271c6f09 SHA-1: 368fe95d310a25749ba1e52107f2d7c4b1a180ea SHA-256: 34ee084049e2e413430a6c5c9b1d9a6051f8664d4bf1441254814843aa912f39
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, which is a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to LibTIFF processing. This exploit allows for the execution of arbitrary code, likely to download and run a secondary payload. The embedded file and script payload further indicate malicious intent.

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10
  • 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_obj0006.bin
922cb0789dc2994d3121850c923f55e8f23bfa848a7737a80c01aa13a2ad3973
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 6 at offset 0x42C 33258 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).