PDF malware analysis — malicious · a2cf9e9664e3742c

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.3 KB

MD5: f167bf559ebdfa2d8ac213d044ef7dc9 SHA-1: c92e3077193cef78b439df42c9e91469a5f0c840 SHA-256: a2cf9e9664e3742c2295e217e33614e031463582ee4b610bcf0bd6a53427c172

160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, which is a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to LibTIFF processing. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution. An embedded script payload was also detected, further indicating malicious intent. The file is classified as malicious due to these exploit indicators.

Heuristics 6

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.
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10
Embedded script payload in PDF stream medium PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD

PDF stream bytes contain an HTML/XFA <script> tag without accompanying Windows shell-execution primitives — common in accessible XFA forms but worth surfacing for analyst review.
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_obj0008.bin` `7b2d2e02fb71b60e1805243b4117d7c3e0629cb146a345785bc8c4fa9721d543`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0x407	30891 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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