PDF malware analysis — malicious · 98ed538370320b38

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB

MD5: 5cae8e464e6a336bc54ed63b182ee787 SHA-1: 99b997030de053bb09564c50f6f5adb1c0a395d4 SHA-256: 98ed538370320b38c332e037283d424b8ed162a3cc3c14993c0aa1fc77d31bf9

138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1027 Obfuscated Files or Information

The PDF file contains an embedded object and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 heuristic, indicating an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This suggests the file is designed to drop a secondary payload. The embedded artifact and ClamAV detection further support 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` `886352083c127cdab0bdc93971d2abdd31433cdccb0681cdc095b21c92867818`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x5D	13415 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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