PDF malware analysis — malicious · 9445a3c9c4186a0c

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.5 KB

MD5: efc0c753c57d86ebb0c6a9e6c8d8e9e9 SHA-1: 605af1883360c10bf68df8e0e0a6955304a2b3f0 SHA-256: 9445a3c9c4186a0c5ffd607521bf0ac810a1c34e53fa25fb165a766ab84a4ef9

160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, indicating it is designed to execute arbitrary code upon opening in a vulnerable Adobe Reader version. The embedded artifact 'embedded_file_obj0006.bin' is likely the secondary payload. The ClamAV detection further confirms the malicious nature of the file.

Heuristics 6

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
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` `c035210e4ecbc49477178ce8ad369f415ba6eb317d4a9470c88132a5aefcd519`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 6 at offset 0x418	38548 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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