PDF malware analysis — malicious · a201a30cfb2de159

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB

MD5: f9f492f470bb6bfbfe301d46adc91dc1 SHA-1: 8b43c4853a86a7832a4e259e9c3a5c9a75d46f8c SHA-256: a201a30cfb2de1598d0712a63241ce950016e3319a766651cadd2870553483c0

138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form with a payload targeting CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF processing. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code upon opening the document. The embedded artifact 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin' is likely the delivered payload.

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` `b182b6581d716315132ddf5908b3b741abe7efd9582cac840ff818cb644aeac3`	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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