Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ca5315b1dcc7194e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB
MD5: 1c6d03eb1844cb6c4db3dcb15dc51c17 SHA-1: 1802ca89bc25eca93ddadd38c5d9f1ac77c8582d SHA-256: ca5315b1dcc7194e93257b79d853f9628477a8a5ae8316997417b8d58998ef4e
138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious File T1566 Phishing T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1027 Obfuscated Files or Information

The PDF file contains an embedded object and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This suggests the document is designed to be opened by a user, leading to the execution of a malicious payload via the embedded file. The ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature.

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: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-90 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-90
  • 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
109e46b0e2a50f72cc5a3d951803348729c29b1143dae02109c8cf408c54261a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x5D 13473 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).