PDF malware analysis — malicious · 4c16db6953dc12d7

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB

MD5: b4464ccd803c6e55a6cb5d6504aff444 SHA-1: 64c54c613d1aec65a20273baa9af4aca97cb2932 SHA-256: 4c16db6953dc12d7f9fc93a3d9df354432e8afc5f111b9317c790ad8c53d4a75

138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204 Malicious File T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution

The sample is a PDF document identified as malicious by ClamAV. Static analysis detected an embedded file and specifically flagged the CVE-2010-0188 exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This indicates the document is designed to be opened by a vulnerable PDF reader to execute a secondary 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` `b1f29a24173c4eeee5f1bbd496f0c7ae2dd0e7910200a9259fa66cf42d575e88`	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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