PDF malware analysis — malicious · 3288b4796659a175

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB

MD5: 52643cf6c4f9df0c802a91c1ac0d3efd SHA-1: 9866930e869598f82a0339ef75f31ae60e3c2176 SHA-256: 3288b4796659a175216bbc716bdf49b65f7c731309648a24fa18a3abd32063fa

138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204 User Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded object that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, targeting a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of XFA forms and TIFF images. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, indicating a malicious intent to compromise the user's system. The embedded artifact and ClamAV detection further confirm its malicious nature.

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.Agent-24109 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Agent-24109
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` `480bff9874047f908dfd2c58111ab080842434b65f91075e948626ee41cd09fb`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x51	13430 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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