Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5522bd13eacaed3e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB
MD5: 70feee0c906c3661d79d4e6907f9a63f SHA-1: c9012407f4710ddc266b0fabec4703a2ae03bda2 SHA-256: 5522bd13eacaed3ee477b49c55d31812338524adc00f91dd3b140ed95d4b68d1
138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204 User Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded artifact that is detected as malicious by ClamAV. Static analysis identified an exploit for CVE-2010-0188, which targets Adobe Reader's handling of XFA forms and TIFF images. This indicates the file is designed to exploit a known vulnerability to execute arbitrary code.

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
19015cdad568d492866c786acdc4142884bf9b0425994cc55b920954ecc90e27
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x5D 13473 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).