PDF malware analysis — malicious · 21950e51778e572f

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB

MD5: 94ba29c25ca0d032685ceacb84625afa SHA-1: 0b57b1da4e132c97d8c7066a4058cd606d9caf4f SHA-256: 21950e51778e572f39bf3bbd1c11aa1efa15a4969cf2a4eeeb04bbb2d00bba02

138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file is a PDF document that contains an embedded XFA form with a malicious TIFF payload. Static analysis identified the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, which targets Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely to download and run a second-stage payload. The ClamAV detection further confirms the malicious nature of the file.

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` `17c37836f8e54b68839f46c658397a9ee0ccb1995682632f9c8c452e7dbbebb0`	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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