PDF malware analysis — malicious · a12072ba8bdfa300

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.0 KB

MD5: 0d17cc536cf6584d8851f639e9843381 SHA-1: 1c63b60984e494c4cbc0dbd2807c253e553d9631 SHA-256: a12072ba8bdfa300bee614a591771779e7b8c9adf750400aec30a1df7bbccc0b

80 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit in Adobe Reader. This vulnerability allows for arbitrary code execution upon opening the document. No document body text or scripts were extracted, but the exploit itself is sufficient evidence of malicious intent.

Heuristics 5

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.
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
PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED

The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PDFSyntaxError. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
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
`stream_002_off000002b0.bin` `9788de8cdb0be51a830849304e5d5f1a15c98f96bc78040749f8f92301037abc`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x2B0	47403 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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