Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3a7e81567fac771a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

826.8 KB
MD5: be800059b1505b0b864139417461236f SHA-1: 69f5fbd889a115ff424fd869b786208e6b035cb9 SHA-256: 3a7e81567fac771a7c1f72371f3ce2518afac779553696348fd562d7f9e0d7e3
140 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic firing for CVE-2010-0188, indicating an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code. A secondary embedded PDF was also found to contain similar suspicious findings, reinforcing the malicious nature of the file.

Heuristics 6

  • 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.
  • Secondary embedded PDF body has suspicious static findings critical POLYGLOT_CHILD_PDF_STATIC_TRIAGE
    A valid PDF body was found at a nonzero offset inside another container and its carved contents matched PDF exploit or lure heuristics. This catches polyglots where the top-level magic routes to ZIP/OLE while a PDF reader or downstream parser opens the hidden PDF payload.
  • 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
  • PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED
    The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PSEOF. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
  • 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0001.bin
f0fe59900d9f459d50659f9186087b60363999e69a6caf19a2c1f5a4853c4538
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x51 13430 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
stream_001_off000cdebc.bin
9e64f05248edfbee7e64aa1ff5dd753e85e5497b7d1dd2db9704044673a012d4
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0xCDEBC 13430 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
polyglot_child_pdf_off000cde6b.pdf
91b52dd0a9c9dcdcc0c36702bce49243703e00ec315755b6f069f5b5f8d61d03
polyglot-child-pdf Secondary PDF body inside pdf container at offset 0xCDE6B 3238 bytes