Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f654ebbfd7f699bf…

MALICIOUS

PDF

80.3 KB
MD5: a671a3c802b5c45958954d7987add51f SHA-1: 58c6918f9d39b3ea248372c664d38cee6ccabeab SHA-256: f654ebbfd7f699bf3fbc8afe45ce3cc3a2a4a0bd7eabe5a5270a6c3cee2d8036
80 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic indicating exploitation of CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms and TIFF images. This suggests the document is designed to achieve arbitrary code execution upon opening. While no specific second-stage payload or family was identified, the exploit itself is the primary indicator of malicious intent. The embedded file and XFA form are consistent with exploit delivery mechanisms.

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.
  • 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
  • PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED
    The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PSSyntaxError. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
  • 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
5cef019c1335cf413c3b764f8bf6d3d305a45c6872e36866b22ef0163fce9c50
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x51 13430 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).