Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ad1d00bc60ecfaca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB
MD5: 4dbf2e2fb8498f464a133d4428c99161 SHA-1: d47c67aff99f799a6d97d745224a92b887ae5f6f SHA-256: ad1d00bc60ecfaca45fb71409e9aaf648c6ff9b56da72990344b68e10f7e6954
138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded artifact and triggers critical heuristics for CVE-2010-0188, indicating an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF XFA image processing. ClamAV also detected it as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-90. The exploit likely leads to the execution of a dropped payload, though the specific nature of that payload cannot be determined from the provided evidence.

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
f36aed15a7b9c3b46a61e91971da560c221d7da943a07fcb751c2a181985809b
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).