PDF malware analysis — malicious · 59822b2abd7693f7

MALICIOUS

PDF

40.4 KB

MD5: abae3f65eb907c727c1e6d512fd6bcf8 SHA-1: 894b114ad3f589e1d0289054e6a9ac1e9e693f8f SHA-256: 59822b2abd7693f72ab84418687e254a1dd2fee8b250678ebf2cd34d7367c60e

160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious File T1566 Phishing T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1566.002 Spearphishing Link

The PDF file contains an embedded exploit targeting CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader, as indicated by critical heuristic firings. This exploit is designed to deliver a secondary payload, likely malicious, as suggested by the ClamAV detection and the embedded file artifact. The attack pattern involves tricking the user into opening a malicious PDF document that leverages this known vulnerability.

Heuristics 7

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
ASCIIHexDecode filter (with exploit indicators) medium PDF_FILTER_HEX

Hex-encoding filter present alongside exploit delivery indicators — often used to hide payload or shellcode bytes
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
PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED

The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PSSyntaxError. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
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` `dd65c855636671984fab1ef9a316af7cd46c92cdb4d69b8e22d3f79aef6b9666`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x5B	13415 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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