PDF malware analysis — malicious · 3513bde1de530efd

MALICIOUS

PDF

3.9 KB Authoring application: hXr (via va)

MD5: 3057ff63fd14733caa6a4d909b4e0f82 SHA-1: cd1454c1ec5b19d8ccbb1cfad2d8f278229a8cc5 SHA-256: 3513bde1de530efd43b2b67cfae74e51ac8c7e2da4b7360b15a226aa56d40ccd

100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and triggers a critical heuristic for the CVE-2010-0188 exploit in Adobe Reader. This indicates the file is designed to exploit a known vulnerability for initial code execution. The embedded file, 'embedded_file_obj0041.bin', is likely the secondary payload. No specific family could be identified.

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` `0d382f35d36c2fe957b49529d7fe0ca1cf0f3cd6393915c0c1729d23444d2d5a`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0x53	9927 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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