Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9a942dfe09991ca6…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.3 KB
MD5: 5d026c005f1225209ceefc034782bc3a SHA-1: 87222625b63a18f3cb656c865d39a2c9b2ad511a SHA-256: 9a942dfe09991ca6eb730f5822b7400f1eed9afd143d989edcdcabc89bad7e49
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 the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, which targets Adobe Reader's LibTIFF XFA image processing. This indicates the document is designed to execute arbitrary code upon opening. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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
09b13bc85bb3235a933b2cf6450a5d9df0c9ec77ff8808ef154f553f3dc41221
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x51 13430 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).