PDF malware analysis — malicious · 25340afca100c001

MALICIOUS

PDF

281.3 KB

MD5: dde8a018a504e0a0dcf175f7cd2f3226 SHA-1: f79434c8de48ac2cf7ae10faac9820cc610bd458 SHA-256: 25340afca100c0013101a8ab127073918f759f2b9ffc901c0f0d8eb853421565

78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form with a critical vulnerability identified as CVE-2010-0188, which targets Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to download and execute a secondary payload, indicated by the suspicious embedded file artifact. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide direct clues to the user-facing lure.

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` `844284862089df5fda254075720c78cdf164a6db6c936ba56b3320987e5e5c6b`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x51	13442 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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