Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d09d6b42c577937f…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB
MD5: 30254fd11ed7ab1ceac3fd5f77ad0272 SHA-1: 31881ac7ea2e270e815a68e52450c178058ca4fe SHA-256: d09d6b42c577937f6e0e6292b55302709dc42ce20d0daedce80472f5c5690e93
140 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file contains an embedded object and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating it exploits a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms and TIFF images. This exploit likely leads to the download and execution of a secondary payload, as suggested by the ClamAV detection and the presence of an embedded file.

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
5fdcec2c9bb0716f73c1927a427a49b14820c36c5e139e405a077540a1abb368
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x5D 13415 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).