Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b37d7c6f53ead447…

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.5 KB
MD5: 55386bef3b84b072212cfc13fd8658a2 SHA-1: 38cd1f91c0e4b14d5742629b0c91d86dbc04007e SHA-256: b37d7c6f53ead44747bfe2249df63c5959178a0fb763638035ab2decb3000416
158 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.001 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious App

The critical ClamAV detections indicate the file is a known exploit for CVE-2010-0188. The PDF contains an embedded script payload, which is likely responsible for delivering the exploit. The embedded artifact 'embedded_file_obj0006.bin' is also flagged as suspicious and likely contains the secondary payload.

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
cc7791653a9c1ac9f3787ac15187d4aa23189311414e2888d3cdc2447a32499e
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 6 at offset 0x411 33432 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).