PDF malware analysis — malicious · 541cbb90d2b2427b

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB

MD5: a9126f9baedb3f593c4375d251c886fa SHA-1: bbdf14a1459239b9d28c5efa5f76597b2a01ed82 SHA-256: 541cbb90d2b2427bc9f74aae521577c5ad555eca647c9ed2439174e9a548b84c

138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains an embedded object and triggers critical heuristics for CVE-2010-0188, indicating it exploits a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of XFA forms and TIFF images. This exploit is designed to download and execute a secondary payload, as suggested by the ClamAV detection name 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-90'.

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` `70b98c16aa74d7d4037641b3ff9e3db2724d22afefd641f85a23e593a63475a6`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x5D	13415 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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