PDF malware analysis — malicious · 44cc83d74e2b131e

MALICIOUS

PDF

72.4 KB

MD5: 8e4d472af4e9f8d4897246758cb07435 SHA-1: 2a3cb59bcfa37d4d6d14ed6b9198bc594339179e SHA-256: 44cc83d74e2b131eaa2d0cfad72706215e72770638454a930f01b795e3a5c014

78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document that contains an embedded file and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 heuristic, indicating it exploits a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to LibTIFF XFA images. This suggests the document is designed to deliver a malicious payload upon opening in a vulnerable application. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable.

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` `312f2c3cf5b94b686735c82608a92a2cd7a4414e44705875d5a24c5d6a22a5f0`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x51	13442 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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