PDF malware analysis — malicious · 912b8d72881edc9d

MALICIOUS

PDF

3.1 KB

MD5: 10b29ee63bc4d4fb1cd594be5c47e761 SHA-1: c7aad019faf89a3b9ccedfa3e0c664db7d3b0b05 SHA-256: 912b8d72881edc9dd0d79a60c713a2b786aea3cee44c7fe21986bca4a507c82b

78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating exploitation of a vulnerability in Adobe Reader. The exploit appears to be embedded within an XFA image/tif payload. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was not readable text, so the primary evidence for the attack pattern comes from the exploit signature.

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.
XFA form low PDF_XFA

PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
ASCII85Decode filter (with exploit indicators) low PDF_FILTER_85

ASCII85 encoding filter present alongside exploit delivery indicators — uncommon outside of obfuscation
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
`stream_000_off000001e9.bin` `913de4456055da0565ded6ae646b773f8ac8db371ba2e13a60c9507af25b78e5`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x1E9	13000 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 2 long base64-like blob(s).

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