Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 5832de29e8f735c1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB
MD5: 1f8be768f85d3bd69f122065e811b1ba SHA-1: 398d697b1b665d594864fdb0c6769054bfc83c22 SHA-256: 5832de29e8f735c1f62679d6634d09f958015af9c8f096101ae20975d2f1b871
138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

The PDF file contains an embedded malicious object that exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to download and execute a secondary payload, as indicated by the ClamAV detection signature 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-90'. The embedded file, 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin', is likely the dropped payload.

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
34844a81e3d9ceae910ecc68b0619a94f86ce79d8f09174e9c4045a4aae7053d
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).