Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 bb49d9cd47ec02c9…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.4 KB
MD5: 6fcc492596c8e4893ee90bf00485bfc2 SHA-1: 7fe85b1f8ce20ecabd01cf9da7906f00facaeead SHA-256: bb49d9cd47ec02c93ec351a3c34b51345d5ae8fa39c53020ab54c132a7f7451a
138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit in Adobe Reader. This exploit is known to be used for delivering malicious payloads. The embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin' is likely the secondary stage of the attack.

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: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject
  • 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
6c1bbaabb04e9334aeafb281dbef5c9388791224418b00eccc696f639aff3944
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x57 13264 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).