PDF malware analysis — malicious · 4c8e3702ac4b1bb8

MALICIOUS

PDF

53.9 KB

MD5: bf00cd26d0a9f14430dab3a06b4759a1 SHA-1: eadf0f1275f103026d1757f739697245edc5175b SHA-256: 4c8e3702ac4b1bb8450e44b47860293eba7cbd4aca8670b8fa48ed5b36f2d7aa

78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an embedded exploit targeting CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader. This vulnerability allows for arbitrary code execution, which is likely used to download and execute a second-stage payload. The embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin' is suspicious and warrants further investigation.

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` `ab5f5a700f375e26865256b129079629b0645e763d283d7ca8d7b7b3f782acaa`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x51	13454 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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