PDF malware analysis — malicious · 9303ad5255ad35a5

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.5 KB

MD5: 7eac9deef830bc8472f65ea9033c4aac SHA-1: e3d84e2aad4948122a7bbc5a9b13e587e3c34fe6 SHA-256: 9303ad5255ad35a53d03b12964f82e410f5d2b9e0c77a7bd954267364122f73b

218 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form that exploits CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader. This vulnerability allows for arbitrary code execution. An embedded script payload was also detected, further indicating malicious intent. The file was identified by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10.

Heuristics 7

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
ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV

ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
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_obj0006.bin` `7325c88a34af9b2b0a875a69149ccf38c4faa414652d7d3c0297cfcf5a4d9f30`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 6 at offset 0x415	38604 bytes
Detection ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10 Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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