Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e1900cdeee1bd428…

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.6 KB
MD5: 0bceb5d9c9484f60fe91cafa7171685f SHA-1: 77733018ded11187232b12099c3ebacadbdea094 SHA-256: e1900cdeee1bd428e6f9b65495be7596cb9ae2062081986bf546fdc79194bcfd
188 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and is flagged by multiple heuristics and ClamAV as exploiting CVE-2010-0188. The ML classifier also strongly indicates maliciousness. The embedded artifact, 'embedded_file_obj0006.bin', was also detected by ClamAV with the same signature, confirming its malicious nature. The attack pattern is consistent with a malicious PDF designed to exploit a reader vulnerability.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • 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_obj0006.bin
6b0a7f7fe7a23db1ed129da1951bba56b9f4b3cbdb8f01d60630789fbc9a85cf
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 6 at offset 0x412 33613 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).