Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ba74b97fdaf4283c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.3 KB
MD5: aa08d1515aa2467654c9a4948881c643 SHA-1: 5c8e8e2c8f3560127d903bb4e08f3c441bdbf513 SHA-256: ba74b97fdaf4283c6ea0c195fa28f5dd031033033eae0d83103b9ef4cca0e7b4
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded artifact and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating exploitation of Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This suggests the document is designed to exploit this vulnerability to execute a payload. The embedded file is likely the delivered malicious content.

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
d7f80ebbdfb6fd18d97d11ad8bca08bf62162cc3ac17266d0e785c2911b83510
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x51 13430 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).