PDF malware analysis — malicious · aae416abe03483f1

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.9 KB

MD5: a2d285028c8a80ae5a1a12f9ed3b370a SHA-1: 6498bf727c8bf590eb7ef6b285925b59a75c96c2 SHA-256: aae416abe03483f10b9b2e864a3455d5067bd44cd9735d2a7470d1bff8fda3b8

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 in Adobe Reader. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution. The embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin' is likely the payload delivered by the 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` `730ebe7fdf97208d62df97b174aea974e7ec98491d378053ef85ca5d77a8ff77`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x51	13433 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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