Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e29033bb8910dce1…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB
MD5: ccffd4118a585d57b0159399b387dd72 SHA-1: 677738ce9b095a5c9cf03d8b4cb708e21e620912 SHA-256: e29033bb8910dce173dc15f06c7489bebdc72996a540d2974319b0344bd87803
138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded malicious object and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, indicating it's designed to compromise systems running vulnerable versions of Adobe Reader. The ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature. The embedded file suggests a secondary stage payload delivery.

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.Dropped-90 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-90
  • 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
def3bb8ef087d4ea82397b0f8746d36706f3090e95959ea0292ea2f2f939383a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x5D 13415 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).