Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 94762a7c9cd5d3fa…

MALICIOUS

PDF

3.8 KB Authoring application: rxode (via va)
MD5: 6811d55b601b17781476a7abadf349b7 SHA-1: cb1615dcf6cf75b5dc4e0bba22cf0d297ffe9182 SHA-256: 94762a7c9cd5d3fa05e716d71bb7bd4bc44726147c96ce4e290788783c102f0a
98 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains an embedded object and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating an exploit for Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This suggests the file is designed to deliver a malicious payload via a document. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was not readable.

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
25fb9bd4d73e5aec318facac08d42857f34ae6a275de1327381731adef5657f6
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0x53 9823 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).