Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 84feae225b828908…

MALICIOUS

PDF

3.9 KB Authoring application: hXr (via va)
MD5: f7bc11ba6781f341c4e78a6198ce9798 SHA-1: 85a7638d1d24c9a5ace01c874421aafa6fe31c34 SHA-256: 84feae225b8289082cf8e612641d7855ea7a320a6515230ea53e854e707e65aa
98 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF XFA image processing. This suggests the document is designed to deliver a malicious payload upon opening in a vulnerable application. No specific malware family was identified.

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
eee307735328ed89e264ba8a1e5ad6496191497ea3fa405275aa3272604dc6b1
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0x53 9917 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).