PDF malware analysis — malicious · 59a32cb679b406d7

MALICIOUS

PDF

8.2 KB Created: eval Authoring application: gfhersdd

MD5: 16def46b79337755914f15314ebfcde8 SHA-1: e24b369cb5b1a9cda01fc856ebbb95afeaec89e5 SHA-256: 59a32cb679b406d7147cd78950000f1a39e66950daafdaf4dcb1c879cfffee0a

80 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded stream that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, targeting a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution on the victim's machine. No document body text was available for further analysis, but the exploit itself indicates a malicious intent to compromise the user's system.

Heuristics 5

Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit — CVE-2010-0188 critical CVE likely CVE_2010_0188

PDF contains the CVE-2010-0188 exploit template: XFA JavaScript heap-spray setup, a generated TIFF image payload, and assignment of that TIFF data to an XFA image field rawValue to trigger Adobe Reader's LibTIFF parser.
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: PDFSyntaxError. 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
`stream_002_off000002fc.bin` `e325540353f474701440fa8d826a2c9f07513748f7b355d07b4de6e65fbe12a0`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x2FC	43539 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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