Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 e934772784dfb9ea…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB
MD5: 376c430d77dd5e8535cec261685cd96c SHA-1: 90f08d722d0796b9b403d6a3e4fee8ebf94aaa76 SHA-256: e934772784dfb9eaa15601c063aaa630638c96601ce17cee5eb50eff7af99ef9
138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded object and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit is used to deliver a secondary payload, as suggested by the 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-90' ClamAV detection and the presence of an embedded file. The document body is unreadable, but the exploit and embedded artifact strongly suggest a malicious intent to compromise the user's system.

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
b364d32ad51452ed3fd9e6e650e2b1cc692fdc2ae097246f457ce4d7175c0e5b
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x5D 13473 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).