PDF malware analysis — malicious · 4b5bc731886755f4

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.5 KB

MD5: 3a8c063ad67128eb71669d8db20ab9d5 SHA-1: fd4bb14958e37cb8e9003dafcce76a50174a2362 SHA-256: 4b5bc731886755f4967aa4b497c034d0f34e818f3e5f1f12b02f8fc3f5f3f548

78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1559.001 Component Object Model Hijacking

The PDF file contains an embedded artifact and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This suggests the file is designed to deliver a malicious payload via this known vulnerability. The embedded file is likely the secondary stage of the attack.

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` `1f3ab4481df69eb73efe9a4d68f815ed07e53399f3c7d0fbd4f038218d574e50`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x51	24939 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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