PDF malware analysis — malicious · a8a16ecbb9cca00d

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.3 KB

MD5: 93fb2b6216504a8acafc50a823cb35c0 SHA-1: 5c93561a8b9143bfef2b511fd087fe31a951898f SHA-256: a8a16ecbb9cca00df5373dcb59c3b7f4e725c65fde490117c20d525254638c2f

78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF document contains an embedded file and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, which targets a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of XFA forms and TIFF images. This indicates the document is designed to execute arbitrary code upon opening in a vulnerable reader. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was not sufficiently readable to infer a specific lure.

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` `686b757cbc77ca09cfbede73e63150fed912f894304bb1d07fcf9889cf777d2b`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x51	13430 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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