Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff59dd075a46ae22…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.4 KB
MD5: 48cfb1a9ec52c5f63c6541550e942ba7 SHA-1: 6941a807d988882ef2c1c914809477524a790468 SHA-256: ff59dd075a46ae22a44aef8d2b7ef15a3ca7f0d060259c83ecbd646f2115794f
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit. This vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF processing allows for arbitrary code execution. The exploit is delivered via an inline XFA image/tif 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
23a6403d2569f612082a6d22c96e5f61991907fd973f8e61e40290f4928c7dd0
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x51 13416 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).