PDF malware analysis — malicious · 8f280ee0fe7a10fb

MALICIOUS

PDF

91.2 KB

MD5: 00f2aaac2e0e8e9c0ec1671642d0eca2 SHA-1: 08274f9b51ea15e9b60ab1015b94ba56414c417f SHA-256: 8f280ee0fe7a10fb2b12e30617ffa923218ddafe7517c4a8717801f19c59735f

80 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic indicating the presence of an exploit for CVE-2010-0188, which targets Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit is embedded within an XFA form and is designed to execute arbitrary code. The embedded file, 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin', is likely the secondary payload. The attack pattern is therefore focused on exploiting this known vulnerability to achieve initial code execution.

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` `b2d2bead51463d57fb23f93d52861e21d507da98c3648c4b05d457ac7bab038b`	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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