PDF malware analysis — malicious · 478acbe9e35b453f

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB

MD5: 1d9340dd9705718439127c5f1310b81b SHA-1: 14b6610fa2b2ab2f15b3e51435cfddfaebf0f69e SHA-256: 478acbe9e35b453f14ffc1d4048630f7961921feb33a00cbc7434fc152ec6ebb

138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains an embedded artifact and triggers critical heuristics for CVE-2010-0188, indicating it exploits a vulnerability in Adobe Reader. The embedded file is likely the malicious payload delivered by this exploit. The ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature.

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` `e324e0dfeb396b3bcf2338b8a37243fd54adf25a8d814155e4cc170d67b67f8d`	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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