PDF malware analysis — malicious · 8e71a8adc76b55cd

MALICIOUS

PDF

64.0 KB

MD5: ae14397059a817fd9a19c2cddb8b1846 SHA-1: 07a4d247a132709f7f0a124244739134b2a84820 SHA-256: 8e71a8adc76b55cdaa3c5807a03c5e817b84a2518c8a2c6ff52b8fa814c6ce7e

78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF sample contains embedded content that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, targeting Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to download and execute a secondary payload, indicating a malicious intent to compromise the user's system. The embedded file, 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin', is likely the payload.

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` `d66a162133b27fcc3909a6262939d23d99c4f3f82664f34110d7b2409677e71f`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x51	13430 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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