PDF malware analysis — malicious · aae595bac8c1fff7

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.4 KB

MD5: 691c2bc862ce90ae60dfc5cf296eff6a SHA-1: 718116c71507c4eaa172e0a8a7f3be554a540c30 SHA-256: aae595bac8c1fff716ad633ca1c09435ab8ad666542b3d8a3c5a216d97bf2c0e

78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204 User Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded artifact and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating it exploits a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of XFA forms and TIFF images. This suggests the file is designed to deliver a second-stage payload via this exploit. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable.

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` `9ca00e12fe69c10d635397e34feaa562d7e2ba0c66eea37bb23019d11dbfe8de`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x51	13416 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

Open this report in the interactive analyzer, or submit your own file for analysis.