PDF malware analysis — malicious · 748281ca8aebfed8

MALICIOUS

PDF

34.8 KB Created: eval Authoring application: gfhersdd

MD5: d2531c30f4962deb8e95a7122ff98a22 SHA-1: a594aeb1b07d0fa3a55209adf45f9b9f3102dff4 SHA-256: 748281ca8aebfed836f0ecaff0d1ba61d3163a07a20f0b231c3bb6ef920bf4f8

80 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains embedded content that triggers a critical heuristic for the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, targeting Adobe Reader. This indicates the file is designed to leverage this specific vulnerability for initial code execution. The embedded artifact and exploit signature are the primary indicators of this attack pattern.

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_off000002e7.bin` `d980db416a918cfcdf9aba5611104480efeb24af9aeb0e0e947ae873a453d85b`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x2E7	50029 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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