PDF malware analysis — malicious · 42352505b3764834

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB

MD5: 585d58b63b77a3b8d8ee366c556f961f SHA-1: b44cd93e8ab0f7b76b08cac24e06b1eef532a723 SHA-256: 42352505b376483467f82ad0cba4d3df10bd0ebbaf60f26b445557d11b187046

138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form with a payload targeting the LibTIFF component of Adobe Reader, specifically exploiting CVE-2010-0188. This indicates the file is designed to achieve arbitrary code execution upon opening in a vulnerable version of Adobe Reader. The embedded file and ClamAV detection further confirm its malicious nature.

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` `66333c8df4561d1193d50733b083fe130b187f94426dd60b06a5bd425fcfe701`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x5D	13473 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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