PDF malware analysis — malicious · 2eb90f57532ee99b

MALICIOUS

PDF

3.8 KB Authoring application: rxode (via va)

MD5: 5bfbe301ee6c790240a646d53360e031 SHA-1: 5f78fb3eabe60276d7059631df759bfc559eadc1 SHA-256: 2eb90f57532ee99bf18ef845d081a8e05743665a3a0be1361701c9daeba4df59

98 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains an embedded artifact and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. The presence of an XFA form and an embedded script payload further supports the malicious nature of the document. The exploit likely leads to the execution of a second-stage payload, though the specific nature of that payload could not be determined from the provided evidence.

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 script payload in PDF stream medium PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD

PDF stream bytes contain an HTML/XFA <script> tag without accompanying Windows shell-execution primitives — common in accessible XFA forms but worth surfacing for analyst review.
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_obj0041.bin` `a22b021ec832e978c74ad00fa1280aae2e69b8bcba5d84fe1da1c16ed30dbb9d`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0x53	9764 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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