PDF malware analysis — malicious · 4d627c84aa36f174

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.5 KB

MD5: 1c4c6dc5beef167b538b83d478ac5fd7 SHA-1: c3eb66a0ff9b9d6da2c8d6483d7d9045ff6bba61 SHA-256: 4d627c84aa36f174f3725670f1b766ab33d45e1d9bcc6698df24bd60e2e8157f

218 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution T1566.001 Phishing: Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains an embedded exploit targeting CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms. Static analysis detected this exploit and confirmed it with ClamAV signatures. The embedded artifact 'embedded_file_obj0006.bin' is likely the second-stage payload. The document body content is not human-readable and appears to be obfuscated or corrupted data, providing no direct clues about the lure.

Heuristics 7

Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit — CVE-2010-0188 critical CVE likely CVE_2010_0188

PDF contains the CVE-2010-0188 exploit template: XFA JavaScript heap-spray setup, a generated TIFF image payload, and assignment of that TIFF data to an XFA image field rawValue to trigger Adobe Reader's LibTIFF parser.
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10
ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV

ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
Embedded script payload in PDF stream medium PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD

PDF stream bytes contain an HTML/XFA <script> tag without accompanying Windows shell-execution primitives — common in accessible XFA forms but worth surfacing for analyst review.
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_obj0006.bin` `6a26e8a1d787f70a16da3de8a8b47a9a1081c8ca102d4ea255406304331e3d6b`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 6 at offset 0x414	33436 bytes
Detection ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10 Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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