Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8d63898b78125346…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.1 KB
MD5: 2d7cdb813b3e358b492275ee3f47247a SHA-1: b45b3bfdc02cf9c5e75fc175a06ffac7fac65d93 SHA-256: 8d63898b78125346e722f515d85ab878cd3664be333775e5fe9c3375b3a43185
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded artifact and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This suggests the file is designed to execute arbitrary code upon opening. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable.

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • 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
12e955785c01c817cb421746d13949c6fec591aa2228c04086391d1e53f65f47
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x66 13410 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).