PDF malware analysis — malicious · a5767045843c01a8

MALICIOUS

PDF

660.9 KB

MD5: c24f62659aa57e6c3f02e8fc182dbfb8 SHA-1: 0d47a9394f51d84c8c12b2309c9f0655aa18d45c SHA-256: a5767045843c01a84fbe032fc367ca15b33758dcf61e1e833d3c31a6deff6029

78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF document that contains an embedded file and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 heuristic, indicating it exploits a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely to download and run a second-stage payload. The embedded file is a suspicious artifact that warrants further investigation.

Heuristics 4

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.
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` `69bc72da866f14f729ee0d2c8859fab93406b4bf2145aa2cbc251dcc23ac3427`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x51	13442 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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