Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3e70e14e69567ce9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

3.4 KB
MD5: fee3c2e11898dfffd6aa2d38686a9063 SHA-1: 05a0f93dcabb9608a64cb734f01463503826b52d SHA-256: 3e70e14e69567ce9daa3f2e607bde20cdf0520a169b7cfad267dce3366e1d3b2
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. The embedded stream artifact likely contains the malicious payload delivered by this exploit. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • XFA form low PDF_XFA
    PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
  • ASCII85Decode filter (with exploit indicators) low PDF_FILTER_85
    ASCII85 encoding filter present alongside exploit delivery indicators — uncommon outside of obfuscation
  • 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
stream_000_off000001e9.bin
ce25f36ab49678ec6c02b29ce5c230b8e69362c4921bbe6adbe31fe816972732
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x1E9 13469 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).