Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 90d0f90267cd46b1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.5 KB
MD5: cfcd413b6cfd6f477de662ef49bb9e66 SHA-1: 843ca64d011fa93122dfd0734095063f61e2d30d SHA-256: 90d0f90267cd46b1290c9ae3db66c531747697af0297176018a64dbc6172d50c
218 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious File T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

The PDF file contains an embedded exploit targeting CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader. Static analysis detected an XFA form and an embedded script payload, indicating an attempt to download and execute a secondary malicious file. The ClamAV detection confirms the presence of the Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10 signature.

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • 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_obj0006.bin
04285d1bdd01bc6ccf70000f12b45dbbe63b8257368953f5e32ad02411b7081a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 6 at offset 0x411 33466 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).