PDF malware analysis — malicious · a9df35c64ec9fdbc

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB

MD5: 517e74d09fba08f34bc45b45057a4b80 SHA-1: c67b3dd4208c4ecebd5ac9f0797a6420db8d9686 SHA-256: a9df35c64ec9fdbc776416f90e7601e6686d0957cd0bd74bde8ca8d512dee5c1

138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded object that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit in Adobe Reader. This exploit is known to be used for delivering secondary payloads. The ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-90' further confirms the malicious nature of the file.

Heuristics 5

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.
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-90 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-90
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` `0457e998701fa4aa1c3229491fa0499a4ee49b87ba63cd9fe594871c2417f56d`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x5D	13473 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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