PDF malware analysis — malicious · 2048af1c58235abb

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB

MD5: 4fbeb62da22aabadfab736efd291aeae SHA-1: ef103371351fc6ad43babca7f88c19bac8f33474 SHA-256: 2048af1c58235abb1dfc5f850e8519365a97a0d06ddcc05976ab5f3323c74d13

138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form that triggers a critical vulnerability, CVE-2010-0188, in Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to execute a malicious payload, as indicated by the ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-90' and the presence of a suspicious embedded file. The document body appears to be malformed or corrupted, providing no user-facing lure.

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` `2b5b9bb809022009b355ada42e7267aee47c36c4e51f361fe6159edc9ac7d062`	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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