Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d17c7c15a6f3a11b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.0 KB
MD5: a17fd9ca87196ce2291a4ad70832586e SHA-1: a652c76451a6c11e4f15ac287321255740637f26 SHA-256: d17c7c15a6f3a11b373d568a685e6f1c08de929a45c3c3d2d19def686d8ce61d
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded artifact and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating it exploits a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component via an XFA form. This suggests the file is designed to deliver a malicious payload upon opening in a vulnerable application.

Heuristics 4

  • 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.
  • 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
00bd8443678dc04b3116b44f91f6de9b7f2315a8e1724f8b7b153fa87d40c1b5
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x51 13430 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).