PDF malware analysis — malicious · 1e40edcb3a6942d4

MALICIOUS

PDF

4.4 KB

MD5: a990342637c5d0336cca70cab5d0583c SHA-1: ae9d27910ed26ad15dcf17afc074fccd230cca66 SHA-256: 1e40edcb3a6942d4a24791ccd0a4fdb23fc407ab223339364b3119d453760b2a

98 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating exploitation of a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. The presence of ASCIIHexDecode and ASCII85Decode filters further supports the exploit. The extracted artifact 'stream_000_off00000207.bin' is likely the exploit payload. The attack pattern is consistent with a document-based exploit designed to achieve arbitrary code execution.

Heuristics 5

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.
ASCIIHexDecode filter (with exploit indicators) medium PDF_FILTER_HEX

Hex-encoding filter present alongside exploit delivery indicators — often used to hide payload or shellcode bytes
XFA form low PDF_XFA

PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
ASCII85Decode filter (with exploit indicators) low PDF_FILTER_85

ASCII85 encoding filter present alongside exploit delivery indicators — uncommon outside of obfuscation
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
`stream_000_off00000207.bin` `9068c88818c8eb0ef13dbea17b0ecb50e0acd1cfa95e5a8a21543fc1ffdb87d1`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x207	13469 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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