PDF malware analysis — malicious · 2ab6b0225ce173fb

MALICIOUS

PDF

3.1 KB

MD5: a26c7cc19893aee8f8574474e85aa627 SHA-1: 8bc4b79c7bc6a280b52d8fece74619c15a740f56 SHA-256: 2ab6b0225ce173fb4770d54e5691facf719690340e94113712dcfa5670fc3005

78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, indicating it's designed to compromise systems running vulnerable versions of Adobe Reader. The exploit is embedded within a decompressed stream, suggesting a direct execution attempt. No document body text was available for further contextual analysis.

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.
XFA form low PDF_XFA

PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
ASCII85Decode filter (with exploit indicators) low PDF_FILTER_85

ASCII85 encoding filter present alongside exploit delivery indicators — uncommon outside of obfuscation
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
`stream_000_off000001e9.bin` `875eab645dd55e0993f2f7b9145ed523009d97e9432f3a0106956c43fb55bba7`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x1E9	13000 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 2 long base64-like blob(s).

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