PDF malware analysis — malicious · 952e38ed6db4c602

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB

MD5: 9e8c4875ae8f8756252ae9e0a468f312 SHA-1: b5b36dd5238865d3595a0be9617adbc003f0d978 SHA-256: 952e38ed6db4c6020d386fdb0843fb8a992c9dd8880715a56495cb9633a02a2a

138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an embedded object and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, an Adobe Reader exploit targeting LibTIFF XFA images. This indicates the document is designed to exploit this vulnerability upon opening, likely to download and execute a secondary payload. 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` `ff25dd684bf4623bd0b5b86915d095bd008827c7943db5ddb17d6e28235f3fec`	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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