PDF malware analysis — malicious · ad205ba4941c5711

MALICIOUS

PDF

22.5 KB Created: 2010-10-35 79:71:00 Authoring application: About Above (via Above Able)

MD5: d5b94ee30b87e7b5beca33ae46de51d2 SHA-1: 7b74576953c79487a7afae9aff505e071c1c79a6 SHA-256: ad205ba4941c5711337792083e9b0aa772d16ca4a573c9ee152b4729f290f629

80 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204 Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file contains an embedded object that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, targeting a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of LibTIFF XFA images. This exploit is designed to download and execute a malicious payload. The embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin' is likely the delivered payload.

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.
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
PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED

The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PSSyntaxError. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
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` `853068488867f6a4824ebdac94a79b5280aa715f91a13ca03d2695f43093684e`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x50	30477 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 3 long base64-like blob(s).

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