Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b2e99d7d4d2536be…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB
MD5: 6f28335923d86fd4e9744152f4eebccd SHA-1: b7a036906036f847d94c3aba530fe0f4891140f8 SHA-256: b2e99d7d4d2536be3a9c98aa60d65bdd42ecf997a5f6c15c0d05ec79bad54fc4
138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The critical heuristic firing for CVE-2010-0188 indicates that this PDF is designed to exploit a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader. The embedded file, 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin', is likely the malicious payload delivered by this exploit. The XFA form and embedded file heuristics further support the exploitation vector.

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
b955bacf59555875f1dbff8da5659e7f7d97a65fc56d1b10664734f9ad81325a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x5D 13415 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).