Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 393cdadb541c88aa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

3.9 KB Authoring application: l (via va)
MD5: a1fa71397b6dd99036436553fa3198ca SHA-1: fcbd9e13396d1af8a7d84fa544d4b6e7a1d08f9f SHA-256: 393cdadb541c88aa4cff4cc19d49f44992a49a01fc27d9c46caab05ed78fd899
158 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, an Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit. This indicates the file is designed to exploit a vulnerability in the PDF reader to execute arbitrary code. The embedded artifact 'embedded_file_obj0041.bin' is likely the delivered payload.

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.Dropped-84 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-84
  • 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
d049ee6937e53a435006212cec49bae112e3ebb235c2a045c27b73324f3573cd
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0x53 9790 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).