PDF malware analysis — malicious · 2e5d680e093e3f83

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.0 KB

MD5: d082b2f175654e01a251fb66ce24f045 SHA-1: 24b9d05f6f53c6e7becced0044d7a5a28f44823f SHA-256: 2e5d680e093e3f83933c33839115d97be49abc760f29463ce5ed5442a1944e36

80 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains embedded content and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 heuristic, indicating an exploit for Adobe Reader's LibTIFF vulnerability. This exploit allows for the execution of arbitrary code, which is commonly used to download and execute further malicious stages. No document body text or scripts were extracted, but the critical heuristic firing is sufficient for this assessment.

Heuristics 5

Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit — CVE-2010-0188 critical CVE likely CVE_2010_0188

PDF contains the CVE-2010-0188 exploit template: XFA JavaScript heap-spray setup, a generated TIFF image payload, and assignment of that TIFF data to an XFA image field rawValue to trigger Adobe Reader's LibTIFF parser.
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: PDFSyntaxError. 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
`stream_002_off000002b0.bin` `367e3a8ef32d2c420e5369c92bb361e5ec7bf2092e8039136566f01eab839549`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x2B0	47444 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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