PDF malware analysis — malicious · 1e277c31fa51ad16

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.3 KB

MD5: db8536cd5733e022c82d321712db81af SHA-1: fc7cc1aec7112bfccbd0634adf7fd38bca9fda4b SHA-256: 1e277c31fa51ad1688666ba4dfa44a9843f4f2b6629eaf932d2f6edf33fccd39

78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains an embedded object that is identified as a malicious payload. The critical heuristic firing indicates exploitation of CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms and TIFF images. This suggests the document is designed to exploit this vulnerability upon opening to execute a secondary 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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0001.bin` `3188d6202b6685294bef746fcf027a6988e6db7cc017aaab4d8d5ae4c0cde023`	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).

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