Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f58b17c97075b2a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.5 KB
MD5: e00905ee295d24e80388a2da98e73e98 SHA-1: 0bd762f5160c380288b0a2c210068c1c6e781f35 SHA-256: f58b17c97075b2a070dc0c51bcc1ddd24ee4e9564cfaac0e33e5d0d8688f0c81
190 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.001 Malicious Link: Malicious Link T1566 Phishing T1566.001 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment T1566.002 Phishing: Spearphishing Link

The file is a PDF document identified as malicious by multiple heuristics and a machine learning classifier. It contains an embedded script payload and an embedded file, both flagged as suspicious. ClamAV specifically detects it as Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10, indicating exploitation of a known vulnerability. The embedded artifact is also flagged by ClamAV.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • 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_obj0006.bin
1a031b1effcc95cf39d2fb13639f56d7edbe4a16e832e3c9a3a00ef73bffeea6
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 6 at offset 0x411 33629 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).