Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a3e43763eee2887b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.4 KB
MD5: 6ca5dbb0d0ef8cab96f591c3946be9b9 SHA-1: 1a48aca581794cc4a621834ba22af257732cb2c6 SHA-256: a3e43763eee2887b9b46cf8f87f330d6ed4afcc10c1313863802296fd2221388
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded object and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 heuristic, indicating an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. The embedded file is likely the malicious payload delivered by this exploit. No document body text was available for further analysis.

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
6c1bbaabb04e9334aeafb281dbef5c9388791224418b00eccc696f639aff3944
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x51 13264 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).