Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f2ae049a78fcb6d7…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.4 KB
MD5: 5094d3a4c045b52bdc376a81660911c8 SHA-1: 77f4853bf57813d3f0ee4b1da0c49af5bba689bf SHA-256: f2ae049a78fcb6d787906cca879ac6965969e499be03f487c12d9b2bde05f1e0
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

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 suggests the document is designed to execute arbitrary code upon opening. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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
1239f508536a5725eff5bf5327773d24a084e06ae952fbe56c19fd5e6c8bb017
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x51 13416 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).