Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e4050076aaba11a4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.3 KB
MD5: 97ded9052480751a1fb686e15ff72b73 SHA-1: f424faa68514aac8e00fde30c9ed7eb1d1329e5f SHA-256: e4050076aaba11a4c0934333f0e01684ad5229c4cb5d6e2f5a6d8ca23606e67a
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious File T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded artifact and triggers a critical heuristic for the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, which targets Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This indicates the document is designed to exploit this vulnerability upon opening, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload. The XFA form structure further supports the exploit delivery mechanism.

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
851f420544f8503907705733dae0b2780e013476036d7f0962240677632e1138
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x50 13410 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).