PDF malware analysis — malicious · 975bfffa694fce37

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.3 KB

MD5: e3341435f9c6fb0e5f2c8af94e9b6f7d SHA-1: e629d1469e480b9e2f103fc28949a4c7f4343458 SHA-256: 975bfffa694fce376dce5141c04cc20df2617ac918f5ff15a097adc8bdc97648

160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The file is a PDF document that contains an embedded exploit targeting CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader. Static analysis detected an XFA form and an embedded script payload, consistent with exploitation techniques. The ClamAV detection further confirms the malicious nature of the file, specifically identifying it as Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10. The embedded file artifact suggests a secondary payload delivery mechanism.

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_obj0008.bin` `489af175b1fb9061067bafe137a871531e3a38d3f49114a0f456e9a4475c05da`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0x408	30852 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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