Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e3244dd3524faa3c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.3 KB
MD5: 9b757c786b9eed2df2aeaae21e6e74d0 SHA-1: c9b6668dc6c97e2b46f0465c9f87c622506d6b95 SHA-256: e3244dd3524faa3c28b5ed83fcaf6a6af39d7d0e8d92fcea88644702ebad91db
218 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded artifact and triggers critical heuristics for CVE-2010-0188, indicating it exploits a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader. The embedded file, named 'embedded_file_obj0008.bin', is likely the malicious payload delivered by the exploit. The ClamAV detection further confirms the malicious nature of the file and the specific exploit.

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: 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_obj0008.bin
a0e41dbdb2808487f4dcacb94bbad303e70b2b85bc4ed6ac9cec85213ebd1fda
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0x408 30903 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).