PDF malware analysis — malicious · 4b79e9b65a7f3c1a

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB

MD5: eb9dea528096f1bade04ebd4fba027ae SHA-1: 6bc58873455661b01175b9f0b7b4085d799ca1e4 SHA-256: 4b79e9b65a7f3c1ab32d61cce86779602f4bb744d037406aa9118602ffb55ff2

140 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1027 Obfuscated Files or Information

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit in Adobe Reader. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution. The embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin' is also flagged as suspicious, likely containing the second-stage payload.

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` `84bcb8de2fbdedac9b241c9384c6806159b5f051dd7f22c8f32590bfea414f77`	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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