PDF malware analysis — malicious · 3e99d30278903d9a

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB

MD5: a8bcc56952258a07e85fb44270f53dac SHA-1: 5ca04f60338bd866fe190ec0b22a6e9695f171a1 SHA-256: 3e99d30278903d9a2645f75f191ec89a1ced852ac8dee228724060a63e383666

138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204 User Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded malicious object, identified as a known exploit for Adobe Reader (CVE-2010-0188). This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely leading to the download and execution of a second-stage payload. The ClamAV detection further confirms the malicious nature of the 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` `ae26a4dc8a7796138a0bcef0fa7f17584f3f57210ff509be2ebeadb07a0791ab`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x5D	13415 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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