PDF malware analysis — malicious · 1d9d90043dcaee2a

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.4 KB Created: sdtres

MD5: 2d41f65da171f55e79035a758cf271d6 SHA-1: a34237afd7b3bb5c8248c8da0f7548e567805a91 SHA-256: 1d9d90043dcaee2a9cef68aee82706bc9fe745ea37e4437987d9dcc04e92e545

158 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The critical heuristic 'CVE_2010_0188' indicates that this PDF exploits a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader. The embedded file and script payload markers further suggest that the exploit is used to download and execute additional malicious content. The ClamAV detection confirms the malicious nature of the exploit.

Heuristics 5

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

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0011.bin` `ae86fda46ac57a989d173698039e4bc9f7d831b68a4a46cd5ac41f302a42eb68`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x436	32604 bytes

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