Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 c867fa843394c48e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.5 KB
MD5: 24609f215646e4a1b50e75bb23a2109e SHA-1: c0c088d165b21177f08eec31c3ba8d0ae979edbe SHA-256: c867fa843394c48e3cdac2bf3710b529a250e285bf12c85bd227a6c967f94875
190 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and is detected by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10, indicating it exploits a known vulnerability. The ML classifier also flagged it as highly malicious. The embedded artifact 'embedded_file_obj0006.bin' is likely the delivered payload.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

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
0a635512abba00826d04ac1211f26ef4d88358de19f3f607df2fd4901812aec1
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 6 at offset 0x40E 33748 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).