PDF malware analysis — malicious · 33c9f60557e410b2

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB

MD5: 2cd520ee72eb9dc86436f731b03d1977 SHA-1: 9838c89808ffbe30d49d8f90c93f4204818c57b6 SHA-256: 33c9f60557e410b29c28310dda0989641c82cffe320f48193d98d5108e75ccef

140 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1559.001 Component Object Model Hijacking

The PDF file contains an embedded malicious object that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms and TIFF image parsing. This exploit is designed to download and execute a secondary payload, as indicated by the critical heuristic firings and the presence of an embedded file.

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.Dropped-90 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-90
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` `5b0ebf0fbae07c6de6d0e986ba989d3af2ae1f47aac3c9bfeed9aaa3ebe4f482`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x5D	13473 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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