Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f5e1504fd3fec1fd…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB
MD5: 0df2a4706f4b05872b2cab296ad00e76 SHA-1: 21ddb316d005a3a151f75a9cc69b307f34775283 SHA-256: f5e1504fd3fec1fd008d8b1a8c7eedd08c324470ca2ef40ff0d0064687eef952
138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF file identified as malicious by ClamAV. Static analysis detected an embedded file and specifically flagged the CVE-2010-0188 exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF XFA image handling. This indicates the PDF is designed to exploit this vulnerability to execute a secondary payload.

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
5b0ebf0fbae07c6de6d0e986ba989d3af2ae1f47aac3c9bfeed9aaa3ebe4f482
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).