Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d4d375822765a35…

MALICIOUS

PDF

3.8 KB Authoring application: hXr (via va)
MD5: e1c2ce2f213d177d7b0b070d472d6cad SHA-1: 6066333d350aa90964d8a824b72057ac27681f4a SHA-256: 3d4d375822765a35e32fcf40f899358d04373b05319cd71e5ce8d394568c4b5c
100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit in Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, indicating the file's purpose is to compromise the user's system. No specific malware family could be identified from the static analysis.

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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
4146d2e6b4b2f337c0dc7841df68c7887c496a7bf7450f279c0a7a95ecb7b489
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0x53 9958 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).