PDF malware analysis — malicious · 4815eef2b2c57455

MALICIOUS

PDF

3.9 KB Authoring application: rxode (via va)

MD5: 3e25b04555ae6407cbaf5b36e11e467d SHA-1: c0c744daebbbc1af5c14023bc6e957e85c4e59e3 SHA-256: 4815eef2b2c5745593d88719d008edba36b0c29cc93de159b0aba68d926c34c9

98 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to achieve arbitrary code execution. The embedded file and script payload markers indicate the likely intent is to download and execute a secondary stage. The document body is unreadable binary data, providing no contextual clues.

Heuristics 5

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.
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_obj0041.bin` `28d3485613bf67ceace21c8435fb32288e0a3dc076b188eb9c1a793ed3d1b1f4`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0x53	9801 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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