PDF malware analysis — malicious · 2fc8e925b0bd185c

MALICIOUS

PDF

3.9 KB Authoring application: hXr (via va)

MD5: 1e7eb182a984538b26aaeacfac35688a SHA-1: 3f46eacc567da6795dd544831c62a1c6c2bdc13c SHA-256: 2fc8e925b0bd185c19d97c741352d5f2e6c50fa6425aa72ec976eb22ccdd0d92

98 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit is designed to achieve arbitrary code execution. The embedded file, 'embedded_file_obj0041.bin', is likely the secondary payload. The presence of XFA forms and embedded files are common delivery mechanisms for exploits.

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` `08813306b4db92de610908434692dc60bf5317487b1a6aab485a70117df987d0`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0x53	9929 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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