Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b108fbcf8c78e44b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.5 KB
MD5: af7cf9ffa16bca4f76498a820f92be3d SHA-1: 85be6ba587c483edc4849e8a9468d5335d2abe74 SHA-256: b108fbcf8c78e44b4572bdb9a8dfa31b5616e2de61618f52704dd7266bbd6dd9
188 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The file is identified as malicious by multiple high-confidence heuristics, including ClamAV detection for Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10. An embedded script payload was also detected, indicating the PDF is designed to exploit vulnerabilities and deliver a secondary malicious artifact. The ML classifier strongly supports the malicious verdict.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • Embedded script payload in PDF stream medium PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD
    PDF stream bytes contain an HTML/XFA <script> tag without accompanying Windows shell-execution primitives — common in accessible XFA forms but worth surfacing for analyst review.
  • 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_obj0006.bin
192b50012e1ed8ac1d50cab21f3bfdb7af435985133db9089218b932ce54fa14
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 6 at offset 0x40F 33567 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).