Malicious PDF / .TMP — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 f71b4c2b0d54113a…

MALICIOUS

PDF / .TMP

56.9 KB
MD5: e3f548012f57cd8cd51b13517feb75b7 SHA-1: 2970467852cc49320ca75edf55f2fb327cc2f503 SHA-256: f71b4c2b0d54113a88ead28eb0e45bd66879c3b225c72573d428529f4bc49208
160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and triggers a critical heuristic for the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, indicating it's designed to leverage this vulnerability in Adobe Reader for code execution. The presence of an embedded file further suggests a multi-stage attack. The obfuscated nature of the document body and the ClamAV detection of 'Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject' reinforce the malicious intent.

Heuristics 7

  • 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: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject
  • 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
  • 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
ed797ebf0c048fc6985ee09a40eefad52e8f74b5dc2cee2f2546e7099786a84a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x104 25105 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 2 long base64-like blob(s).