Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b67ff254a760a5df…

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.7 KB
MD5: 6514d767c0ddbefc10c2d10a2f221a2c SHA-1: 04ba090f035a9dd100f426c06067314538e3b8d3 SHA-256: b67ff254a760a5dfade222ebdc073c22637e5d8c6b541857f28b99e3761e8809
158 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The critical ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10' indicates the file is a malicious PDF exploiting a known vulnerability. An embedded script payload was also detected, suggesting the PDF is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload. The extracted artifact also triggered the same ClamAV signature, reinforcing the malicious nature of the embedded content.

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
df7b4803453ad1af2d9c58b57c52d97d7b338f836d2b2fa480b4d23b902c4525
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 6 at offset 0x440 34112 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).