Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 aaacc166ab440f41…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB
MD5: 4ec6ee35e62b5a95367a03a763ff7fed SHA-1: 941590f6c1ea1347f5a38559922dcae33152655f SHA-256: aaacc166ab440f41c65bb6fe9d2c2bdd4dc01da27b479f60b5c8142a605f79d5
138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.001 Malicious Link: Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Malicious File

The PDF file contains an embedded object and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This suggests the document is designed to deliver a second-stage payload upon opening in a vulnerable reader. The embedded artifact is likely the delivered payload.

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
79cce55c4e95ce9361a662996c0eb37e0ef648bb183a8e481424094090a0f49b
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).