PDF malware analysis — malicious · 298f471e9cbc0d03

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB

MD5: d7d32c1d1d25885a94532a340d40720e SHA-1: ff2e7e07bef93308fcb4c5a37a84702a2cde77e1 SHA-256: 298f471e9cbc0d03e256f85f5a6340703e1f4a355ea75bcf45a4a1eb8744df49

138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1559.001 Component Object Model Hijacking

The PDF file contains an embedded malicious object that exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to download and execute a secondary payload. The presence of the XFA form and the embedded file strongly indicate 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 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` `992f8261152b966f3892e547e4ae01e0123dc76e6a222880bb48fe913c08c9de`	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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