PDF malware analysis — malicious · a1878e49146c9b59

MALICIOUS

PDF

4.0 KB

MD5: 9d3651e9edd18658054d478f768838a8 SHA-1: a8684bb1ca6bb00e17a749d337e3d18512b0b5d5 SHA-256: a1878e49146c9b5986f2b773edd3e98fe50773187ca0984a34827f552f1a2e85

218 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded TIFF image that exploits CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader. This vulnerability allows for arbitrary code execution when the PDF is opened. The ClamAV detection further confirms the malicious nature of the file, identifying it as Pdf.Exploit.Pidief-3.

Heuristics 7

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.Pidief-3 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Pidief-3
ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV

ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
ASCIIHexDecode filter (with exploit indicators) medium PDF_FILTER_HEX

Hex-encoding filter present alongside exploit delivery indicators — often used to hide payload or shellcode bytes
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` `536af4be37338b5bdf86dcadd9d3e9328d7fca82cfc232ff2f6401125800af25`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x6C	13441 bytes
Detection ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Pidief-3 Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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