PDF malware analysis — malicious · 458a69d22bff4488

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.5 KB Created: qsdfsdf Authoring application: val

MD5: 27999063ee22a051260bae101231ea80 SHA-1: 230457eefaf3883f7d170fb32c87a26939293f6b SHA-256: 458a69d22bff4488d67d37331674bd91dd9f800371c85aefba8c383fc13f5f83

160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell T1059.003 Windows Command Shell

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form that exploits CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader. This exploit allows for the execution of arbitrary code, indicated by the critical heuristic firings and ClamAV detection. The embedded file and script payload further support the malicious nature of the document, likely serving as a dropper for further malicious activity.

Heuristics 6

Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit — CVE-2010-0188 critical CVE likely CVE_2010_0188

PDF contains the CVE-2010-0188 exploit template: XFA JavaScript heap-spray setup, a generated TIFF image payload, and assignment of that TIFF data to an XFA image field rawValue to trigger Adobe Reader's LibTIFF parser.
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10
Embedded script payload in PDF stream medium PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD

PDF stream bytes contain an HTML/XFA <script> tag without accompanying Windows shell-execution primitives — common in accessible XFA forms but worth surfacing for analyst review.
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_obj0006.bin` `274a68f6cb9d88f4d847410abfccb426ac53e31891769e8f68ca3d5955a38e09`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 6 at offset 0x42C	33402 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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