Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7e346d734a4219ce…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB
MD5: 1c9b85c80095ab07155051e324a02ca9 SHA-1: f3cf1b46c6e534ec8181ebcb5442348c2b5cf1f8 SHA-256: 7e346d734a4219ce8fdbadce7bd5c96527efb06d325a7b93a48bbdf765500a71
138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file contains an embedded malicious object that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms. This exploit is designed to download and execute a secondary payload, as indicated by the 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-90' ClamAV detection and the presence of a suspicious embedded file. The document body content is not human-readable and appears to be malformed or encrypted.

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
9adf043a53b779d443f5459537ee65fbad58951a4f7ddd21d08afdc8771a23f8
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).