Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 a93a5470b8cf0a51…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB
MD5: cdc2d5d63dd62a4994ed7b90ab1a9676 SHA-1: 68fbd2fa9e0db67d9e2794b7fa22760cb21107be SHA-256: a93a5470b8cf0a5188007d689c6cf639c86c1dcc747028ecd3a73e4f861dba5f
138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded object that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, targeting Adobe Reader. This exploit is known to deliver a secondary payload, indicated by the 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-90' ClamAV detection and the suspicious embedded file artifact. The document body is unreadable, but the exploit and embedded file strongly suggest a malicious intent to execute arbitrary code.

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-90 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-90
  • 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
17c37836f8e54b68839f46c658397a9ee0ccb1995682632f9c8c452e7dbbebb0
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x5D 13473 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).