Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e6be4932e896e349…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.1 KB
MD5: b57b4c30c0dffd1a8068c4a281caf9ad SHA-1: 08566e095dd2da43e6298c39eeca23863fa36afd SHA-256: e6be4932e896e34964da4c3649d457b5cb8e76ad8b39b99590a8adca772bf76c
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded artifact and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This suggests the file is designed to execute arbitrary code upon opening in a vulnerable reader. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable.

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
12e955785c01c817cb421746d13949c6fec591aa2228c04086391d1e53f65f47
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x66 13410 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).