PDF malware analysis — malicious · 41a915d7d0e0829d

MALICIOUS

PDF

3.8 KB Authoring application: l (via va)

MD5: c3e265431a36478870b8bb27648a7de7 SHA-1: b967ddef015844a87c28d209540320232658bf78 SHA-256: 41a915d7d0e0829d9a766ab8be4a978d0c69b5b5da4cb25508fc7dac0c5be604

158 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204 Malicious Link T1204.001 Malicious Link: Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Malicious File

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form that exploits CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader. This vulnerability allows for the execution of arbitrary code, likely to download and execute a second-stage payload. The ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-84' further supports the malicious nature of the file.

Heuristics 6

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.
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-84 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-84
Embedded script payload in PDF stream medium PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD

PDF stream bytes contain an HTML/XFA <script> tag without accompanying Windows shell-execution primitives — common in accessible XFA forms but worth surfacing for analyst review.
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_obj0041.bin` `a0bdd28fcbef5c8c2bbe5713c5d5c3113597319c7213d7bd2f42808b1163aba7`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0x53	9797 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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