PDF malware analysis — malicious · ab452795c804b4e9

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB

MD5: efff8b41f896b1b566876b90925ad0ba SHA-1: 9bbca73efa16a4af48a210fccd4c3566fd355103 SHA-256: ab452795c804b4e9a84d9e2980c5ad791a3e031c0f3a0889f08625dda87fdd8d

140 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1559.001 Component Object Model Hijacking

The PDF file contains an embedded malicious object that exploits CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to download and execute a secondary payload, indicated by the ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-90' and the suspicious extracted artifact.

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` `e2e716c66581938145d46c9b8511ac8ba00b82b259f9644678d9bb6ecc0bebb0`	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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