PDF malware analysis — malicious · 436e2de6b2c97b6e

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.4 KB

MD5: e65089b878919d119cedc763763910e2 SHA-1: fa03029de2c8a2c8df2fb9ee6a514a635d2530af SHA-256: 436e2de6b2c97b6ebc0287fa12b1f3760f70b27384f6a315d8fa5abbfdd915a1

162 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious File T1566 Phishing T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1566.002 Spearphishing Link

This PDF file is identified as malicious due to the critical heuristic firing for CVE-2010-0188, indicating an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. The file also contains an embedded binary artifact, further suggesting it's designed to deliver a secondary payload. The presence of XFA forms and ASCIIHexDecode filters are common techniques used in exploit delivery.

Heuristics 7

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
ASCIIHexDecode filter (with exploit indicators) medium PDF_FILTER_HEX

Hex-encoding filter present alongside exploit delivery indicators — often used to hide payload or shellcode bytes
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
PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED

The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PSSyntaxError. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
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` `460d249f12d653a7c69e167db4fcfca3fcab4cfc9b078b8c8387e7aadb89b6e2`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x5B	13415 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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