Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 3f202bbb9c73e84e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.7 KB
MD5: 7d0938967b7172a861e24015600a88b9 SHA-1: d3365a89dd513fdf7261d41366e7aa631ef40a20 SHA-256: 3f202bbb9c73e84e19e8a26e7940ba40477e7708e896f979946f499d27198bd4
78 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 vulnerability in Adobe Reader. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution, likely to download and run a secondary payload. The embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin' is suspicious and warrants further investigation.

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.
  • 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_obj0001.bin
8f708e3d014475549025a77193ccde25b900fc95dd8ac203218075671072f3a3
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x51 13359 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).