PDF malware analysis — malicious · 485309f76037b045

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB

MD5: 9d249dcfc7d6bf271994ef256e746ea1 SHA-1: 21b0e79a07e29d3ff4728394136b0514b14ea272 SHA-256: 485309f76037b04554b53b05fe713a84738188079c630398b597e1587c44e202

138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file that exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to execute a payload embedded within the PDF. The heuristic firings strongly indicate the presence of an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's handling of TIFF images within XFA forms, leading to the execution of a dropped file.

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` `d25af6362db176d2df9dae834fe0e1015b7cfd2b0ce984fb5079d8edb36cdd29`	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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