PDF malware analysis — malicious · 2ab6885981dda6e2

MALICIOUS

PDF

67.9 KB

MD5: e4aa329f19065fbf46a773be6be3b571 SHA-1: e53f3cec5511f2e859b91bb0b20ba04fb69d3e16 SHA-256: 2ab6885981dda6e2bb2d1795d7dbaa01600d366e2ed8dc5712f3fa73fb015a88

80 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The critical heuristic firing for CVE-2010-0188 indicates that this PDF document is designed to exploit a vulnerability in Adobe Reader. The embedded file suggests a secondary payload is likely present. The document body is heavily obfuscated and does not provide clear user-facing content, further supporting a malicious intent via exploit.

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.
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
PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED

The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PSSyntaxError. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
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` `5ec0d473ee9d12f367df9819f8708481ac3ee1f7861e57012b064878752c2c0b`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x51	13438 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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