PDF malware analysis — malicious · 2ac48b75e5885d68

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB

MD5: ff7e56656e49d4589fccbab58adbf74b SHA-1: 5e610e1d0aba11333d1e6401333ae2a52065e577 SHA-256: 2ac48b75e5885d68d7133408a2e8cfe030d1f33f571161f957af8c4b4775ee0f

138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious File T1566 Phishing T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1566.002 Spearphishing Link

The PDF file contains an embedded object and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, indicating it's designed to deliver a malicious payload upon opening in a vulnerable version of Adobe Reader. The ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature. The embedded file, named 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin', is likely the secondary stage of the attack.

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` `764dceda7d8b24156df7290f2205281ba543304baa5d6c68177f4105307551f5`	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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