Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9d39720fb430128d…

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.5 KB Created: qsdfsdf Authoring application: val
MD5: 2c230c1c3139bc10135bc0299fb232ff SHA-1: 771ffe4830abb295d1295ef2d3c2cb61c0eaf7bf SHA-256: 9d39720fb430128d927bc6b939b8574ef934bac9518336620a78b049a85dcd80
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file exploits CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely to download and run a second-stage payload. The embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0006.bin' is highly suspicious and likely contains the malicious payload.

Heuristics 6

  • 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
  • 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
f00b3b22da5b077a9ebd1d35c17c9568f3cd8c3eebf97573cd1f8bd090405372
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 6 at offset 0x42A 33539 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).