Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e0697955ad9f547e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.3 KB
MD5: 7ef792785b84fc671f295fd13ea0081e SHA-1: 3c18781966dfbdd8ce93aab74463782eb2b57e3e SHA-256: e0697955ad9f547eaec6ba7e291d2a943b6eff010f0438f4eb40c7f95cd65764
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form with a critical heuristic match for CVE-2010-0188, indicating it exploits a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF processing. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code upon opening the document. An embedded binary artifact was also detected.

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
fe74786aa27cca888c511a229f602b73cc07739af2bcbd0e2809b488556a2fc1
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).