PDF malware analysis — malicious · 1d54f9f98546299f

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.9 KB Created: 2134-56-78 65:43:23

MD5: 2ff61b227dc6aa012a0683d8e4936b00 SHA-1: 4390449de1cee0dffec8b8d320129db18cd3ea4b SHA-256: 1d54f9f98546299f85ce1eca678ad8dcb63d8f33eeea0932a1d2c024cf6a3e97

160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, indicating it's designed to execute arbitrary code upon opening in a vulnerable Adobe Reader version. The embedded file artifact further supports the malicious nature of the document.

Heuristics 6

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: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10
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
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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0008.bin` `2ffe98f64071ae4281f0be12a68325eb575e14e7743fe2dba0303694c4a6016e`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0x436	78201 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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