Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9364e60911977aea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB
MD5: c348d3cd79de2297aa5790d94bf8d8ae SHA-1: dc749b10b8d3951335c8eee33bc879213972d6f4 SHA-256: 9364e60911977aeac3a49e8aca4c424d1e14ba25ba26268e27c2b423bc4b1e62
138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The critical heuristic firing for CVE-2010-0188 indicates that this PDF exploits a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms and TIFF image parsing. The embedded file further suggests the delivery of a secondary payload. The ClamAV detection 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
17c37836f8e54b68839f46c658397a9ee0ccb1995682632f9c8c452e7dbbebb0
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).