PDF malware analysis — malicious · 54d1c4614b8900f0

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.0 KB

MD5: 13a8327ec4d8685010d6740950bf5a45 SHA-1: c5f957c20f1fc3e048011b5bf973c22f76ea08e5 SHA-256: 54d1c4614b8900f040bb56410282cacb7318456d35b6122b4c20b0b7f87ea2ff

78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form with a payload matching the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, which targets a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF processing. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely to download and run a second-stage payload. The embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin' is a strong indicator of this malicious intent.

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` `c7cefcd61428ee0576f55d2ced2270256f70abb9ba0e56673661f6562b8fd4f9`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x51	13430 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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