PDF malware analysis — malicious · 901dae47e7e0f047

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.5 KB

MD5: b6ef8f04655a76736033c684752eda82 SHA-1: fab7fb7a58778f7c6165c345a9a1ad75fca650eb SHA-256: 901dae47e7e0f04706bf84d6894b295b8767e8a42554b5c6f4b08f8d794c331a

78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded TIFF image that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of XFA forms. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely leading to the download and execution of a second-stage payload. The embedded artifact 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin' is suspicious and warrants further investigation.

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` `480bff9874047f908dfd2c58111ab080842434b65f91075e948626ee41cd09fb`	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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