Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e4c0e83cff909696…

MALICIOUS

PDF

63.5 KB
MD5: bcca0c932e843f7f2419a5075934eb4f SHA-1: a3f237f551d02f4a0b9e6295bbc481b1bb5c4dbe SHA-256: e4c0e83cff9096964ac10b9723517b73d5817f5e72431019dc84c68c95f70563
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form that exploits CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely to download and run a second-stage payload. The embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin' is suspicious and likely related to the exploit.

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
204d25c16bf97822d2b7fdcf8adcb3878aa99573d9e9f1ffd5b4f264c3da72e9
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x51 13454 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).