Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e75a47f8dec3cc9b…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB
MD5: 900c530bc5b68fe4b339ec53627b99c5 SHA-1: 633595c1a432f334f585371ad31b935aaa447748 SHA-256: e75a47f8dec3cc9b0bc0185ba784762193652304c8dcf298fd191957fb24feae
138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded malicious object that exploits CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to download and execute a secondary payload, as indicated by the 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-90' ClamAV detection and the presence of an embedded binary file. The attack pattern is consistent with a malicious document designed for exploitation.

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
e67a9276c4517f404b66b96ccfb6bcfc56ecce53b84704ce0556ad24f58e1ac2
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).