PDF malware analysis — malicious · 4ed2a326496d88bc

MALICIOUS

PDF

1.9 KB

MD5: 589c6b179a53a684eb22626e4c32b337 SHA-1: 798cc73e47fa3177f4e4e3c9515faf282a39270c SHA-256: 4ed2a326496d88bc03835f25d7ca2f94e47be7a8f532cdaa21a943f14da1afda

78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an embedded artifact and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. The embedded file, named 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin', is likely the second-stage payload. The XFA form and embedded file suggest a delivery mechanism for arbitrary code execution.

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` `0b29e1b8a7dbd196813eef127e941f8236c1dae4c57f1dc21c09a4c93c70fba4`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x50	13430 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

Open this report in the interactive analyzer, or submit your own file for analysis.