PDF malware analysis — malicious · 940c9c6e7ea9bb14

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB

MD5: 1842d748d38af2cc1a5bb1907770394c SHA-1: d9052464ad6d4d655079bdb0777f2e400368adff SHA-256: 940c9c6e7ea9bb14e0d4931de6ef5190d993ceb3ae0a00a642adeb896fd3d3da

138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form with a malicious TIFF image payload, triggering the CVE-2010-0188 exploit. This exploit is known to be used for delivering secondary payloads. 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` `08a914e3ce2cddd6f1446efc95c2efa89fcd24b98ee2a360fb0db82f2cb80697`	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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