PDF malware analysis — malicious · 2ba6c6ef557ef69e

MALICIOUS

PDF

4.0 KB

MD5: aae16c0271a8225ed35e96805a3199f7 SHA-1: 398ce33cb9c12e096860396a6d1e19fc8e36b0ae SHA-256: 2ba6c6ef557ef69ebd117ae486aea409c731e114e011b5a1ca46f8b8d14be5a1

218 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 TIFF image that exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely leading to the download and execution of a second-stage payload. The presence of XFA forms and ASCIIHexDecode filters further indicates malicious intent.

Heuristics 7

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.Pidief-3 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Pidief-3
ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV

ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
ASCIIHexDecode filter (with exploit indicators) medium PDF_FILTER_HEX

Hex-encoding filter present alongside exploit delivery indicators — often used to hide payload or shellcode bytes
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` `fb2b328cef0d99bfe3b59c857ccb1f0a4dd59dec1b37713b1d179a1b41febf7c`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x6C	13441 bytes
Detection ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Pidief-3 Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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