PDF malware analysis — malicious · 2a0257d1ce008f71

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.4 KB

MD5: ce58ace1be374408f6599147536742d3 SHA-1: 21b0ede9940dad1c1ab074da9f5d71dd8ff06022 SHA-256: 2a0257d1ce008f71a95257f60d0cb371ed43dac5ecee9bb35103eb25a8151922

78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded object that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, targeting a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of TIFF images within XFA forms. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution, indicating a malicious intent to compromise the user's system.

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` `1e300f83ce85c49f0b047e00e62317fd5f8c15479223b3fe0c3188c9c0f2da54`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x51	13348 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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