PDF malware analysis — malicious · 3a2b852299dceb04

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.8 KB Created: val Authoring application: %

MD5: 7603ea81ad1aaf3325d1a3e71e28afcb SHA-1: ac5522213849c3c51b53d1a458d6cf9b0a3b0e52 SHA-256: 3a2b852299dceb040f35dead0d5a627dab0efbeede1753a290fe8b0aaf17af6a

80 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic indicating exploitation of CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of LibTIFF XFA images. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code upon opening the document. No document body text was available for further context, but the exploit itself is the primary indicator of malicious intent.

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_001_off0000031c.bin` `c9d76c656b67976b7a643a4eb958d8226dfa3c7a2c0a43127a370030a65f2e41`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x31C	72041 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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