Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 8e1e2b49bff9be9a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB
MD5: 761d7bd422574ae539f6c7051f8d6021 SHA-1: 982103dbe95ceb65f3f274d020a24d392acdabce SHA-256: 8e1e2b49bff9be9af09246da5d1b1aa8c9518b724e9f0e4a4516fd623a88b669
138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.001 Malicious Link: Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Clickjacking

The PDF file contains an embedded malicious object that exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to download and execute a secondary payload. The ClamAV detection further confirms the malicious nature of the file.

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
d6e5e0f2fde30e302e493608ba18a795e228b0c01783c416735d7c4d5f09430d
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).