Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3d949dab92f1ffbb…

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.4 KB
MD5: f22ea4a20cdcc11dec051702e84ee08f SHA-1: a1c4090e2ec47e9427a0e65ad933f8960870aa28 SHA-256: 3d949dab92f1ffbbdbda46b432a05131d848e3d087e935a3f8be8b7ffb4f63c3
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, indicating it's designed to execute arbitrary code upon opening in a vulnerable Adobe Reader version. An embedded script payload was also detected, further supporting the malicious intent. The ClamAV detection confirms the presence of the Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10 signature.

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
31ad689994fc67ac6b6751db68319e00cb2da98cb188e0ba5e47275e6acc2759
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 6 at offset 0x411 33418 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).