PDF malware analysis — malicious · 2183414369875c17

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.5 KB

MD5: 2867ad963da23a794646c8d0cde6a05a SHA-1: 0b5fa6e4cafbd53310e15487c198510446a5a47d SHA-256: 2183414369875c17c926bec3bd4f6c9ffeda23dd222f1e413ea4fb69c9117e60

78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204 Malicious File T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form with a critical vulnerability identified as CVE-2010-0188, which targets Adobe Reader's LibTIFF handling. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely delivering a second-stage payload. The embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin' is highly suspicious and is the likely carrier of this 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` `824aabc93a82a90c97d0954d29aa3399153feb42b869790a2e9bb08a6f327d20`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x51	24939 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

Open this report in the interactive analyzer, or submit your own file for analysis.