PDF malware analysis — malicious · 4518659eeba1c3b7

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB

MD5: 620a2b54fc68e76a9a4c923779ae5a25 SHA-1: a6d7bc5b6e16e5306f54e100fbd271547a31b141 SHA-256: 4518659eeba1c3b7c2a039fb812ae6dd68c65bb95cfd2489f8dd3f5494b80cb9

138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form with a payload targeting the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF processing. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely leading to the download and execution of a second-stage payload. The critical heuristic firings strongly indicate this exploit vector.

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` `76bdf9a50e4809c9db60f942ea273bf9710c8ccec4638faeade0eae4ab75acf9`	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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