Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7d1af92633b83ffc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB
MD5: b2957fe610ab405501593bdad1093de7 SHA-1: c28fe2dced8fda00e63c8bb748d87a5c011ff0dc SHA-256: 7d1af92633b83ffc6bde4d1a5cf59db7ef6498e133b8b69d6196996c8708b08f
138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded object and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 heuristic, indicating it exploits a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. ClamAV also detected it as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-90. The embedded artifact suggests it's a dropper for a secondary 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
79cce55c4e95ce9361a662996c0eb37e0ef648bb183a8e481424094090a0f49b
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).