PDF malware analysis — malicious · 8f464176e56b3af4

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.3 KB

MD5: e1f479bf2c7b45a341adab864481219c SHA-1: 33f89ede56a9e881b0450cfebf251359c5741690 SHA-256: 8f464176e56b3af4536f71a8f5c62d1beaac2653db413a5402545f118d92d5d8

160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains an embedded object and triggers critical heuristics for CVE-2010-0188, indicating it exploits a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader. The ClamAV detection further confirms this exploit. The embedded file is likely the second-stage payload delivered by the exploit.

Heuristics 6

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.
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10
Embedded script payload in PDF stream medium PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD

PDF stream bytes contain an HTML/XFA <script> tag without accompanying Windows shell-execution primitives — common in accessible XFA forms but worth surfacing for analyst review.
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_obj0008.bin` `d36d99f087fce0697806db1d1f9f70e6414f62fee850342a27593dc8d79ec220`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0x405	30670 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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