Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d37bc20519172f8a…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.4 KB
MD5: ad25f7cacee6b3349d92b02cf5fd7573 SHA-1: 6dc57028df2cf8a96996583ae2d752fa5366c6b1 SHA-256: d37bc20519172f8aabbde565f7097eb8a2e12be7f3fe703bae38c75927bf5ca9
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.001 Malicious Link: Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Clickjacking

The PDF file contains an embedded artifact and triggers a critical heuristic for the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, which targets Adobe Reader's LibTIFF XFA image parsing. This indicates the document is designed to exploit this vulnerability to execute a malicious payload. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was not sufficiently readable to infer further intent.

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
3163a1026d55fae47840621d87b391c0fdec2b8aa44b189672e2f1b6e1e103b4
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).