Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a64570709b654933…

MALICIOUS

PDF

48.6 KB
MD5: 7b66dcd8112a524b25ebdb9dcf75b78e SHA-1: c5f2b34764b74719883345c73e0d4868570222f4 SHA-256: a64570709b65493339ed8836c5d1e6e7adb5e48f54e4cdc548de21a38c00bd5c
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit in Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely to download and run a second-stage payload. The embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin' is suspicious and associated with the exploit.

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
f2d4b11c901b7f0292bbf5ec9899940f613457b040297e177f4e5a26d10780c4
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x51 13442 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).