Malicious PDF / .TMP — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 dc33e2848d538764…

MALICIOUS

PDF / .TMP

230.3 KB
MD5: 4db3705750f1c569e8518806264ebafe SHA-1: a2b05cf45f85b86f5e373ac74412343025784aa7 SHA-256: dc33e2848d538764ad02379e9f1fc483d01a6fde10dedd6040e0a79548c873d4
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1027 Obfuscated Files or Information

The PDF file contains an embedded artifact and triggers critical heuristics for CVE-2010-0188, indicating exploitation of Adobe Reader. The ClamAV detection for 'Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject' further supports the malicious nature and suggests obfuscation techniques were employed. The embedded file is likely the second-stage payload.

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: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject
  • 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
  • PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED
    The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PSSyntaxError. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
  • 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
4f37888d4c9174419fed3053ddf8007afc33766fb87b924302ecb678f6aff2f4
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x2CF 25258 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 2 long base64-like blob(s).