PDF malware analysis — malicious · 3ffe8fcfffa7c6cd

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.5 KB

MD5: 1e92b64792cb260151586eb4fcd2d87f SHA-1: 8ef73324cefc4948afb64547fba0cc44406d8728 SHA-256: 3ffe8fcfffa7c6cdd309ba20790cb7a519e35435dc42f253d1a1649386ca4396

78 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, targeting a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of TIFF images within XFA forms. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the critical heuristic confirms the exploit's presence.

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` `5da95a365468e5115c3228d1bb6dfbd228c5f6da707fd174b60ad65ea81334b7`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x55	24998 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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