PDF malware analysis — malicious · 34c3f56aaacaf1bd

MALICIOUS

PDF

3.9 KB Authoring application: rxode (via va)

MD5: 6dbfe3ecbd49097e80e75e348b09d55a SHA-1: add555b68f2ace91c08304366008d2339d543e8e SHA-256: 34c3f56aaacaf1bdd9b01b82e662e2f30a4861bb96594ca30dc5f613f42b5ddb

98 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, indicating it attempts to leverage a vulnerability in Adobe Reader for code execution. An embedded script payload was also detected, suggesting a secondary stage of execution. The extracted artifact 'embedded_file_obj0041.bin' is likely the payload.

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` `71e4b21565e4b746a2c0e1f78ba0d3271d6e269fb43a30d09b631424454ba3a5`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0x53	9797 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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