PDF malware analysis — malicious · 93efa48db561f536

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.5 KB Created: qHFdTlfA Authoring application: gfhersdd

MD5: 24dcef083fdc92636698a7c66e454c81 SHA-1: 02ccdb6f99ac6a4a5f3858fc2d5dd743e943f055 SHA-256: 93efa48db561f5361e70e509f95b6ab330b3fa02965a125f332917f78f1dac65

82 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded stream that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF XFA image parsing. This indicates an attempt to execute arbitrary code upon opening the document. No document body text was available for further contextual analysis.

Heuristics 5

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.
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
PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED

The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PDFSyntaxError. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
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_001_off000002e7.bin` `44dd6580b6e6a8074f8cf28055796d0dcbf4109a885a1d6c372075c1bee79b8c`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x2E7	59476 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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