Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c3579bb90b0615db…

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.4 KB
MD5: 1a58b6791e873c3bb42f07dbb313a4bd SHA-1: 7ec9360f43629ff9be2f6457ba99285f2c14b700 SHA-256: c3579bb90b0615dbf932c151c440be0eff09f707ba51bf6e2870f434481b18c9
218 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution: Malicious Attachment

The PDF file contains an embedded artifact that triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating an exploit targeting Adobe Reader. ClamAV also detected this specific exploit signature. The embedded file itself was also flagged by ClamAV as malicious. The document body content is not human-readable and appears to be obfuscated or corrupted data, providing no further context on the lure.

Heuristics 7

  • Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit — CVE-2010-0188 critical CVE likely CVE_2010_0188
    PDF contains the CVE-2010-0188 exploit template: XFA JavaScript heap-spray setup, a generated TIFF image payload, and assignment of that TIFF data to an XFA image field rawValue to trigger Adobe Reader's LibTIFF parser.
  • 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
56e8bf6927ca6cc0a3a102f94d346193df81d8b0c9a8072854ad0f97287ade54
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 6 at offset 0x40D 33443 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).