Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d565dbee9feb16c8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

1.6 KB
MD5: 17c52bdf6cadcac9ba3506001df1ba32 SHA-1: 799e35c787b1bdab00d1e37ea1df7b106fa50ce9 SHA-256: d565dbee9feb16c8483eaef816b37457df402a7260fd11cc734ba53b8f86b441
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

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. The embedded file is likely the malicious payload delivered by this exploit. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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
12e955785c01c817cb421746d13949c6fec591aa2228c04086391d1e53f65f47
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x50 13410 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).