PDF malware analysis — malicious · 45484674ea4463a2

MALICIOUS

PDF

85.6 KB Created: 2010-03-21 10:36:25 Authoring application: llPDFLib program (via llPDFLib 3.x)

MD5: cb3cb17527bfde64b455f9c5385975c8 SHA-1: e4292981359cdab0832d5b189270c3fc05fff287 SHA-256: 45484674ea4463a2f9f1718d2015ab866faf1bd673b12543581e87ff5feabdb7

78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1204.001 Malicious Link T1059.001 PowerShell

The sample is a PDF document that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms and TIFF images. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution. The embedded file and the nature of the exploit suggest the document is designed to download and execute a secondary payload, although no specific URLs or scripts were directly extracted to confirm this. The presence of an embedded file and the exploit technique are strong indicators of malicious intent.

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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0001.bin` `abbf9faf59a168141cc70da8732fc2879df0d8c54926424071498a26e76c2717`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x57	13430 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
`font_00_sfnt_off0000be40.bin` `e73edcbc7a0741485261d6fa6587f61f5c2be07fff8ba574e7781203b40aae6b`	pdf-font-stream	PDF embedded font (sfnt) at offset 0xBE40	61668 bytes

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