PDF malware analysis — malicious · 35cfd4769ce1ced6

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.0 KB Created: eval Authoring application: gfhersdd

MD5: 85e0e71aa3253e2995ca259ba9ee6b77 SHA-1: 2ebd25693f47c70c4304a5e5360c5e98844d6bb5 SHA-256: 35cfd4769ce1ced6317f88b3db4a67a9a483be3b69050db99b021d9362ad92d5

80 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit in Adobe Reader. This vulnerability allows for arbitrary code execution. The exploit payload was found within a decompressed stream.

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 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
PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED

The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PDFSyntaxError. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
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
`stream_002_off000002e7.bin` `d980db416a918cfcdf9aba5611104480efeb24af9aeb0e0e947ae873a453d85b`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x2E7	50029 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

Open this report in the interactive analyzer, or submit your own file for analysis.