Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 376d39e6a6d3c19e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.5 KB
MD5: 3f19db42b23452987884b38eb493b2c4 SHA-1: e9184dd5ea5dfe03c931a00acce99c51d16bab5e SHA-256: 376d39e6a6d3c19e9a1e7792f5aae43a501c7b67dc206b777f22951405bccf12
158 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.001 Malicious Link: Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Malicious File

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and is detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10, indicating exploitation of a known PDF vulnerability. The embedded artifact further suggests the delivery of a secondary malicious file. The document body content is obfuscated and does not provide further clues on the specific lure.

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • 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
bbcc0736765102216d7724f27a0729cddf82e6b6df4f4e0919507577e3eb8aab
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 6 at offset 0x412 33556 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).