Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 b79afca78002250c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

1.8 KB
MD5: a8b2101f6366d350323ce6f1a8c7f026 SHA-1: f91600077cd57f37de355d3cf4fb0c7c42439cf0 SHA-256: b79afca78002250c29d9ca0643b4e1b7382a0c1ba8ab330eeb9e1452896c43e3
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.001 Malicious Link: Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Malicious File

The PDF file contains an embedded artifact that triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, an Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit. This indicates the document is designed to leverage this vulnerability to execute arbitrary code upon opening in a vulnerable reader. No document body text was available for further analysis.

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • 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
facdb60b9150c018a9b8a38821fe9df7b6c36ea70271780129a6249d43722aa3
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x50 12914 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).