PDF malware analysis — malicious · 84ea6f6648b27831

MALICIOUS

PDF

104.4 KB

MD5: d80eb21cfe8ad1a710c8652b13f8b7ac SHA-1: 59bba16f21f0fc02bb0a691147c595a976945d0d SHA-256: 84ea6f6648b2783167edf9c82c6affd1e7947dfae834392daa07a9ab7f8d1969

78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The sample is a PDF document that contains an embedded file and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit. This indicates that the document is designed to exploit a vulnerability in Adobe Reader to achieve code execution. The embedded file, 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin', is likely the secondary payload. The exploit is a critical finding, and the presence of an embedded file strongly suggests a malicious intent to deliver further malware.

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` `f076e6d092aee15d677b07a4a1dc27adfd886ce33bc58f2eb7b417919c7d5289`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x51	13454 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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