Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5500a9596e2582ed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB
MD5: 049148041440ca47861db2c81e3bcd8d SHA-1: 619619a1b0d57fbfa940b8a9642c3efc8265308a SHA-256: 5500a9596e2582ed388a8d5f291745b86964cfe0f52d25156b98d93b491700ae
138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file contains an embedded artifact and triggers critical heuristics for CVE-2010-0188, indicating exploitation of Adobe Reader. ClamAV also detected it as malware. The embedded file is likely the second-stage payload delivered by the exploit.

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
def3bb8ef087d4ea82397b0f8746d36706f3090e95959ea0292ea2f2f939383a
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).