PDF malware analysis — malicious · 4719fa9e222e8d8a

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB

MD5: 646efec3024f5c1d3b19ee046841a8c5 SHA-1: 85d74918774b2f23fa445a1128acf967e3b983e5 SHA-256: 4719fa9e222e8d8a1f0b6d9cfb96ab3e326a0ad47b4a0f0b1262687ab8f18c10

78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic match for CVE-2010-0188, indicating it exploits a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms and TIFF images. The embedded file suggests a secondary stage is likely downloaded and executed. The presence of XFA forms and embedded files points towards a common delivery mechanism for exploits.

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` `4efe23e57d6d1e886ed92b9d55a6ce9ba55234977f9c343098465d6f9ba16763`	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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