Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 d657180e612aa950…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.0 KB
MD5: 9e9dfd9534fe89518ba997deac07e90d SHA-1: d0a69d8c2d6427a4637f1f3ebf45af60a815df61 SHA-256: d657180e612aa950058de781b164c9cfb83b52831aa51054b3d6335498148e1f
138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded artifact and triggers critical heuristics for CVE-2010-0188, indicating an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF XFA image handling. This suggests the file is designed to execute arbitrary code upon opening in a vulnerable application, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 5

  • 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.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-24040 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-24040
  • 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
c3a147adc42a0755036e3bf09cad748c8cf0335ec374a8bd8c8f1c01c7ae796e
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).