PDF malware analysis — malicious · a7c9b913c4540771

MALICIOUS

PDF

232.3 KB

MD5: ad1835f8cfa38cedc663ea87f9f39b9f SHA-1: 80b6840360a0efa5317172651657cdaf93ecca58 SHA-256: a7c9b913c4540771e0db044fab98b7b8ecfe084c1b45186fea68317faa8fc14f

78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form that exploits CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader. This vulnerability allows for arbitrary code execution when the PDF is opened with a vulnerable version of Adobe Reader. The embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin' is likely the malicious payload delivered by this exploit.

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` `b9cb17ef9ea631f56c0a9b05f0532c25f0af472647cf14caaba128acdf9cf8d8`	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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