Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f57dc78bdac87238…

MALICIOUS

PDF

3.8 KB Authoring application: l (via va)
MD5: 4e5bb4068b06e4021f82263736091e33 SHA-1: 37b8e5480f6a498425a0994545ddc12daf09df1b SHA-256: f57dc78bdac8723852d05e30676a0d3c1e98454db93ff131ce8899dab85a7a16
158 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file contains an embedded object and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit for Adobe Reader. This exploit is known to deliver a second-stage payload. The ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-84' further supports the malicious nature of this file.

Heuristics 6

  • Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit — CVE-2010-0188 critical CVE likely CVE_2010_0188
    PDF contains the CVE-2010-0188 exploit template: XFA JavaScript heap-spray setup, a generated TIFF image payload, and assignment of that TIFF data to an XFA image field rawValue to trigger Adobe Reader's LibTIFF parser.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-84 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-84
  • Embedded script payload in PDF stream medium PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD
    PDF stream bytes contain an HTML/XFA <script> tag without accompanying Windows shell-execution primitives — common in accessible XFA forms but worth surfacing for analyst review.
  • 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_obj0041.bin
624424b7b604b11217ee4ea8529768e056ce635c8af04d3673924e55af4d9e54
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0x53 9815 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).