PDF malware analysis — malicious · ab8493cb79e0d510

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.8 KB

MD5: 4699708f8e36dcbacc62c21dd0020826 SHA-1: 939804384c70b453b145eea487d2d55f2305f0d5 SHA-256: ab8493cb79e0d5102af5fb86338c45e5ae99c857d70e54c8c4f7293284d01393

78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains an embedded object that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, targeting a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of XFA forms and TIFF images. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely to download and run a secondary payload. The embedded file and exploit indicate a malicious intent to compromise the user's system.

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` `5ec0d473ee9d12f367df9819f8708481ac3ee1f7861e57012b064878752c2c0b`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x51	13438 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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