PDF malware analysis — malicious · 742197040a0e69b1

MALICIOUS

PDF

8.5 KB

MD5: fa4ef731c8bec8c803073ba8ddb3505f SHA-1: ba51aca24bb1c0b574c99c93262db34a2b24fc4d SHA-256: 742197040a0e69b12b2bb705a3f425b5635b990cdc8656fa1be4c8e04fa09f1a

78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF document that contains an embedded file and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 heuristic, indicating exploitation of a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms and TIFF images. This suggests the document is designed to execute arbitrary code upon opening in a vulnerable reader. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable.

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` `e5fef8e4bccd560935a16b484b1926d6d967df5627e11f1f994cf35b1fb618b5`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x58	13345 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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