Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d65113ee0b2e7510…

MALICIOUS

PDF

3.9 KB Authoring application: rxode (via va)
MD5: f858a8c687511ce2effaeee2e23bb3f3 SHA-1: c1eb8c047ef806e65feee013f40a581e5e1c7f98 SHA-256: d65113ee0b2e7510cd7c3869b495231db877e0009e1eb9d1a5f0dbcba67ea548
98 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form that exploits CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader. This indicates the document is designed to deliver a malicious payload upon opening. The embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0041.bin' is likely the second-stage payload.

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • 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_obj0041.bin
75ec4ae87510ba922766b9c504b6660972532f4221c6b9ee66320c27ab718d63
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0x53 9880 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).