Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8c06999ed783d794…

MALICIOUS

PDF

3.9 KB Authoring application: rxode (via va)
MD5: 5dfe4546f8432385c0b3919ff1d9cc47 SHA-1: 0d3753df46aabd0bf670da947f0fcfff8a28fd61 SHA-256: 8c06999ed783d79434324898dbb9aaa4be4b2e32536d07018c60408805c39a13
98 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form that exploits CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to download and execute a secondary payload from a remote location. The embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0041.bin' is likely the secondary payload. The exploit targets a known vulnerability in PDF rendering, indicating a malicious intent to compromise the user's system.

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
b06587dbb65c80bafc9a885ff0d458f440ee9ca98ea091f46cab501c9c611eea
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0x53 9822 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).