Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 57f32c9cecf8fa40…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.4 KB
MD5: f7bd5b3ad875006f9e1aefbd867e8e42 SHA-1: 3e9b062f757c9793d308d77ae691c7203e8264cb SHA-256: 57f32c9cecf8fa40a05ee53a3e110bf083c588ca920b07ce61a2e4302d8da64e
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF document contains an embedded XFA form that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit in Adobe Reader. This vulnerability allows for arbitrary code execution. The exploit payload is contained within an embedded TIFF image. No document body text or scripts were extracted, but the critical heuristic confirms the exploit.

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
5f938b50cd3e93b75449bc4a6b3adc45240d22abf282ee37ae37969a45f861c5
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x51 13430 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).