Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 57bdf29461b97d1e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.5 KB Created: qsdfsdf Authoring application: val
MD5: 6de445f32527fc430588a1574344ecf1 SHA-1: 4e38f2ae283aee03c418027c48342993968c97f2 SHA-256: 57bdf29461b97d1eed50a83500294298bec969d508e8fb2acf96e2e5b644ee30
218 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious Attachment T1559 Component Object Model Hijacking T1559.001 Component Object Model Hijacking: Component Object Model Hijacking

The PDF file contains an embedded exploit targeting CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader. This vulnerability allows for arbitrary code execution when the document is opened. An embedded file artifact was also detected, further indicating malicious intent. The exploit payload was successfully decoded from a decompressed stream.

Heuristics 7

  • Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit — CVE-2010-0188 critical CVE likely CVE_2010_0188
    PDF contains the CVE-2010-0188 exploit template: XFA JavaScript heap-spray setup, a generated TIFF image payload, and assignment of that TIFF data to an XFA image field rawValue to trigger Adobe Reader's LibTIFF parser.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • Embedded script payload in PDF stream medium PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD
    PDF stream bytes contain an HTML/XFA <script> tag without accompanying Windows shell-execution primitives — common in accessible XFA forms but worth surfacing for analyst review.
  • 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_obj0006.bin
4e0df43a6b48c8d6a2087b7d15ee87686a820e2f055a84b9b95ce2ba6bb11fbc
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 6 at offset 0x42C 33534 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).