Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d37038eb5a2705c3…

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.8 KB Created: 2134-56-78 65:43:23
MD5: cae2d627941951b3a63ea4af4c507430 SHA-1: 239c3ff22b70630d1e0e87917fdf870df8c08eb6 SHA-256: d37038eb5a2705c38877bb1d47ef5ce0065ff04f3206453640aff74d2da4196c
218 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form that exploits CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely to download and run a second-stage payload. The ClamAV detection confirms the presence of the Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10 signature.

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_obj0008.bin
fec878b2d8966f29f07d27afc59ccd2674137354b2cb6817dab3b79f66895300
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0x434 77993 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).