PDF malware analysis — malicious · 28a36b3ddf9bc1f6

MALICIOUS

PDF

3.9 KB Authoring application: rxode (via va)

MD5: 092f05ace97428c7f0496f3152d28d3e SHA-1: e25afb67637562abd4283965dcecf829ac39d1fc SHA-256: 28a36b3ddf9bc1f6b6919e691cfb51633bb95f32661551f1afd2e8d61a052eb3

98 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit in Adobe Reader. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide clear user-facing content, but the presence of the exploit indicates a malicious intent 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 the CVE-2010-0188 exploit template: XFA JavaScript heap-spray setup, a generated TIFF image payload, and assignment of that TIFF data to an XFA image field rawValue to trigger Adobe Reader's LibTIFF parser.
Embedded script payload in PDF stream medium PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD

PDF stream bytes contain an HTML/XFA <script> tag without accompanying Windows shell-execution primitives — common in accessible XFA forms but worth surfacing for analyst review.
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_obj0041.bin` `066d36085314b6f9b378bd3ceb82c00c5d2628846a60a772d541235a904ed95c`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0x53	9787 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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