PDF malware analysis — malicious · 9cedc1bc310db1c4

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB

MD5: 3a2cfba46fb1d623381b13aaae0b1791 SHA-1: 4467b6f114c0832d534d468c16e02e2b562269f2 SHA-256: 9cedc1bc310db1c480e20a526c91b58eba1db9289c4d72401fd0808a5b2f567b

138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1566 Phishing T1204 User Execution

The sample is a PDF document that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms and TIFF image parsing. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely leading to the download and execution of a secondary payload. The embedded file and ClamAV detection further confirm 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` `934c50966ca219fe09e00d1e3cb1a39b51135d56f4a138d957602a98546c3d98`	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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