PDF malware analysis — malicious · 1ebb43f3a0b947c4

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB

MD5: 771da2d76d4a8fe2f6e25542cfdebb61 SHA-1: 40be1f5304d6a339c77c2fdb1d2a4748a2d6dc5f SHA-256: 1ebb43f3a0b947c4a360103789fde3dbc110304e7d5d583ec0a75c74d4d1b838

138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious File T1566 Phishing T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1566.002 Spearphishing Link

The PDF file contains an embedded object that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, targeting Adobe Reader. This exploit is known to deliver a secondary payload, indicated by the 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-90' ClamAV detection and the suspicious embedded file artifact. The attack pattern is consistent with a phishing attempt leveraging a known vulnerability to compromise the user's system.

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.
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-90 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-90
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` `3c72ee2ef14b07fb73aae6fb2a715906d8b9962b2c127439841fb6e52738d3c9`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x5D	13473 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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