PDF malware analysis — malicious · a8277a099d88bed8

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.8 KB

MD5: b047e0f4364afb17c8bdb1c04d1838c7 SHA-1: f04ec32bf04cad439e494e73fa4dffc2eb42ce3d SHA-256: a8277a099d88bed82eee3aa417b80215a203e20fd21262651dd21d669d813c76

78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit. This exploit targets a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of TIFF images within XFA forms, leading to arbitrary code execution. The embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin' is likely the malicious payload.

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` `0323bfe1c37808f9b3c5f284a52582b4dc2e3244e91e9d86b632ca48b1f3bc56`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x50	13409 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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