PDF malware analysis — malicious · 508b2db8aa792e19

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB

MD5: efe66d3ce37cedeae07f03e6bcd39b8d SHA-1: eb6613bb3d674b8f596f4a769787c5a72908f6ac SHA-256: 508b2db8aa792e198f73273eaab3c90c0698622272bbdf7ac023f0287ba410fd

140 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form with a payload targeting CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF processing. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, indicated by the ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-90'. The embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin' is likely the second-stage 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` `c22389df861e90f1d28d4419bf0efe6cfe6edff614a60a8f05a19036d4239769`	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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