Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 9edc40672aa0b5d5…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.5 KB
MD5: 75837e321d8b374545ef1bb29be226ad SHA-1: 067f401d44fd6368c2fb41116eefea590bf134b1 SHA-256: 9edc40672aa0b5d5cd9d227bd93d36d10a659018855ee7367f19c684311460ea
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form with a critical heuristic indicating exploitation of CVE-2010-0188. This vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component allows for arbitrary code execution when processing a malicious TIFF image within an XFA form. The embedded artifact 'stream_000_off00000051.bin' is likely the payload.

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
stream_000_off00000051.bin
fa5f31ed417c899225fd17458010b94bec4467a7c609693a4ca6a2eb852a3099
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x51 13430 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).