PDF malware analysis — malicious · 3f01888d51bd67a2

MALICIOUS

PDF

113.1 KB

MD5: 58de08c1155a775b760049dff3f5abe4 SHA-1: fb1e11dcc3ca45e8e94def1c6b774b66f7161e23 SHA-256: 3f01888d51bd67a2501d4d3d1b5ed63cf3d0cea1413d563484f041cd0b3ff295

78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The sample is a PDF document that contains an embedded file and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit. This exploit targets a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of TIFF images within XFA forms, allowing for arbitrary code execution. The embedded file and the exploit indicate the document's purpose is to compromise the user's system, likely by downloading and executing a secondary payload.

Heuristics 4

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.
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` `a217de210d07754b4933c9f4d61c4348f82f599e1eb97277dc22b1e85dc9668a`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x51	13454 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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