Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 ff7c92adefd3e013…

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.4 KB
MD5: 5b2c734c0fd7e0afc0d1f0ba247e5c15 SHA-1: 2865b6f557a94dab20e7b0e918e428df40ee8aa1 SHA-256: ff7c92adefd3e0130eb3373a1c3adaad59af06899d705a30b142d6b55a3268f1
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 allows for arbitrary code execution when a vulnerable version of Adobe Reader processes the malicious PDF. 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
3692cd04c5e27315ab5d400db0b1aa764df5690d89f6e7c6d54fd0007e35d358
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).