PDF malware analysis — malicious · a7ae9798bcbbed5f

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.3 KB

MD5: 2dc984e2dd4c63f1e09827aedeaa3e73 SHA-1: 3205608e19e46e39922181a1eede369e46cdcaec SHA-256: a7ae9798bcbbed5f3616aeeeb12e25a8c8cf13ad24c455e3d69d9bceccf511da

160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an embedded exploit targeting CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader, as indicated by multiple critical heuristic firings and ClamAV detection. The embedded file, likely the second-stage payload, was extracted for further analysis. The exploit's primary function is to download and execute a malicious payload.

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_obj0006.bin` `cc9e461747fdaa8ddeb3ac25e3c2f8485addcf898b44433cdf59ae26e516f6f0`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 6 at offset 0x40F	30720 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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