PDF malware analysis — malicious · 40fead22d8e2e5fb

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB

MD5: ffa74dd74dfd54717f1f55ec7f0124fa SHA-1: 4cf65d2e419c4bc18369fb0641052d3cdf88d267 SHA-256: 40fead22d8e2e5fb725b142f25d392eb287004350d7534f0874f12a78857e9b3

138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1027 Obfuscated Files or Information

The PDF file contains an embedded malicious object, identified by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-90. Static analysis indicates a critical vulnerability exploit for CVE-2010-0188 within an XFA form, suggesting it targets Adobe Reader. The embedded file is likely the second-stage payload.

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` `30867b309a1cc912b16a695282993d7ffd365a630e837c5c167bc4972a1a4a1a`	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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