PDF malware analysis — malicious · 8435554e9492b058

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB

MD5: 45b4a40aa774325d349da3486b241ae0 SHA-1: 4670fe960faa0f38bd03583a2ba7e72c6dc2f49c SHA-256: 8435554e9492b0580eb830d31e2f57b45aee85e084e4f3b5ac994f5b23895cce

138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit in Adobe Reader. This exploit is known to deliver a second-stage payload, as indicated by the 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-90' ClamAV detection and the presence of a suspicious embedded binary artifact. The exploit targets a vulnerability in the LibTIFF component used by Adobe Reader.

Heuristics 5

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
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` `e324e0dfeb396b3bcf2338b8a37243fd54adf25a8d814155e4cc170d67b67f8d`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x5D	13473 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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