Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a22b748a9117b1d4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

1.9 KB
MD5: d0502d16798ce82ea462be130b87a020 SHA-1: a1dee7f837b967281ad15fa0feea668efeb34612 SHA-256: a22b748a9117b1d499d4ef87ca671cbbb5362148c103c6883c4f0b967eb96d16
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains an embedded malicious object that exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader. This vulnerability is leveraged to execute arbitrary code, likely to download and run a secondary payload. The presence of an XFA form and an embedded file further supports the exploitation vector.

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
651855e7bb7d80c7a437124cf3bff1b504364189b9da0de2456ea8810e2415f5
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x50 12918 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).