Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 81db1bd0bc68046f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

3.8 KB Authoring application: rxode (via va)
MD5: 854683bef53112d49e696b8a549631b6 SHA-1: e3b42a687cc1d0aeb7e55f1c56b02fcf775ebed8 SHA-256: 81db1bd0bc68046f05419ac09f89fbaf0605037a31d007a6a88ce80e8d847fe4
98 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, targeting a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution. An embedded script payload was also detected, suggesting the potential for further malicious actions.

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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_obj0041.bin
bf681adce578c7542d808bb670fe7af8ccb07e2287fd80016d70f81d16202908
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0x53 9786 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).