PDF malware analysis — malicious · 8f9a32770c25242c

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB

MD5: 855fc148830716ddfd0b1fedc2903a80 SHA-1: 674c4cf394653bcd7ae9d3d33554e5923ab5ce27 SHA-256: 8f9a32770c25242c354c26828d83807a265e948c157ceae6557c23438d8118af

138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains an embedded artifact and triggers critical heuristics for CVE-2010-0188, indicating an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. The embedded file suggests a dropped payload, characteristic of exploit-based document attacks. The ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature.

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` `1347fb4b3c44df5693c4482aea7b858a38124c38731d97398bdedf106ccfd58c`	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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