Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9b57eda054439b1b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

3.9 KB Authoring application: rxode (via va)
MD5: eb57f513e22a2f433f99051a9b86a452 SHA-1: 601158964b907b492a8951857bf35bf2705c3e34 SHA-256: 9b57eda054439b1b1f12e74bc555a7e7639d7f2637ad124778fd8c12b2684846
100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and exploits CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of LibTIFF XFA images. This indicates the document is designed to deliver a malicious payload upon opening in a vulnerable application. The embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0041.bin' is likely the delivered payload.

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
54042bb5c587e9603b97c2aee7850940cbdba26c02bdd9c14e7dd0d097b9734c
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0x53 9807 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).