PDF malware analysis — malicious · 46a0e86c9d5509d9

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.3 KB

MD5: f3c7c4e3426cd1f10736269a4f9c0f7f SHA-1: f63ab219440d31e9b2c5abdbf4a2c72281ddba80 SHA-256: 46a0e86c9d5509d9f39206fe6ac04a96a26cb9825e6aaccbbb244715cb2e65aa

78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded artifact and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating it exploits a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. The XFA form structure is also noted. The primary attack vector appears to be the exploitation of this known vulnerability to execute arbitrary code.

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` `97f8e0f183765c3a8bd322e0617addd2aac8228ae7343fa152bc7769c28505ea`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x51	13430 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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