Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 407c4d8b9fd24281…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB
MD5: bed797bee34307fcad8569b48eb23ed9 SHA-1: 421cc2e0def385252371749a8534cda92e3ed281 SHA-256: 407c4d8b9fd2428148241c58dcb06197cce62df0466a7bbbdfd4fb99a59cb69f
138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1027 Obfuscated Files or Information

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form with a malicious payload targeting the LibTIFF component of Adobe Reader, specifically exploiting CVE-2010-0188. This exploit is designed to download and execute a secondary payload, as indicated by the 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-90' ClamAV detection and the presence of a suspicious embedded file. The document body is unreadable, but the exploit and embedded artifact strongly suggest a malicious intent to compromise the user's system.

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-90 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-90
  • 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
c397928f4aaff1bd2e5f1fffd4509fe51b8a12e7f7e4ec95fb286b60e2ed22ba
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x5D 13415 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).