Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 eb208a1d48c29eb8…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.1 KB
MD5: c7388db94c278abf1316db60eeea966d SHA-1: 2eebcf835fa6a7e59d90d34313f12eb6beae4f71 SHA-256: eb208a1d48c29eb893a8efb60d638aae229fce952fda10668d281224ac5e7c55
70 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit is designed to achieve arbitrary code execution. The presence of a suspicious extracted artifact, 'stream_000_off0000003c.bin', further suggests the execution of a secondary payload. The attack pattern is consistent with exploiting a known vulnerability to deliver further malicious content.

Heuristics 3

  • 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.
  • 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
stream_000_off0000003c.bin
12e955785c01c817cb421746d13949c6fec591aa2228c04086391d1e53f65f47
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x3C 13410 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).