PDF malware analysis — malicious · 539c96cd31add5a3

MALICIOUS

PDF

8.4 KB

MD5: ce66609bef10a8f76995a372070be3a6 SHA-1: dcf0290354df762b0e866576e64057a6b62b435f SHA-256: 539c96cd31add5a350768776d7c1166707b46e640139f4f3e1be65c6c7a8448e

78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form with a critical heuristic match for CVE-2010-0188, indicating it exploits a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of TIFF images within XFA forms. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution on the victim's machine. No document body text or scripts were extracted, but the exploit itself is sufficient to determine the attack pattern.

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` `560f589747ad7d5fe57f62b698abf03cac00f453c2c69b189f67325584b69b2d`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x58	13465 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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