Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 fea5b91be95e2eb2…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.5 KB
MD5: 80d3e279d3bd7e98bce155379ace6958 SHA-1: 101f01040abc5a7806413ba692b3c8f320cf5438 SHA-256: fea5b91be95e2eb23d5edb5bb49441378dedc5f1da788dde9d6940f1460b430c
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF document contains an embedded file and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability, which is known to be exploited by malicious PDFs. This indicates the document is designed to exploit a vulnerability in Adobe Reader to execute arbitrary code. The embedded file is likely the payload.

Heuristics 4

  • 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
  • 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
0549d525d44f40128866cd2440c46358a343b484f15d3f034c044f5caf86cc0f
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).