PDF malware analysis — malicious · 4d8e87cfa331ac87

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.5 KB Created: qsdfsdf Authoring application: val

MD5: 166f69c9332fec01553f2d6b09d3ddd0 SHA-1: 45a1d3c0e35e5b2bb76f178ee5464b68e6f2f1e0 SHA-256: 4d8e87cfa331ac8721b40837ff192857500f2d318b6772cbf8df1404a0eb83eb

160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204 Malicious Link T1204.001 Malicious Link: Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Clickjacking

The file is a PDF document that exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader. This is indicated by multiple critical heuristic firings, including 'CVE_2010_0188' and 'CLAMAV_DETECTION: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10'. The exploit likely leads to the execution of a secondary payload, as suggested by the 'PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD' firing.

Heuristics 6

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
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` `b23b2cc1d8ff857a0355aad549f47637abd3a7a7c75bd55707dd94b1fa10af66`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 6 at offset 0x42C	33483 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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