PDF malware analysis — malicious · ae4e289773af846e

MALICIOUS

PDF

180.3 KB

MD5: e8bbd6999f6931524c3da65f62ff55b6 SHA-1: f5bb16703b0c5d8f4ff32814e75ce2e7fba153f0 SHA-256: ae4e289773af846e7eea0f432d84fc3788b7e6a9c049bc987b3a6127c85003b6

160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit for Adobe Reader. This indicates the document is designed to deliver a malicious payload upon opening. The embedded file artifact further supports the malicious intent.

Heuristics 6

Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit — CVE-2010-0188 critical CVE likely CVE_2010_0188

PDF contains the CVE-2010-0188 exploit template: XFA JavaScript heap-spray setup, a generated TIFF image payload, and assignment of that TIFF data to an XFA image field rawValue to trigger Adobe Reader's LibTIFF parser.
ClamAV: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Heuristics.PDF.ObfuscatedNameObject
Embedded script payload in PDF stream medium PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD

PDF stream bytes contain an HTML/XFA <script> tag without accompanying Windows shell-execution primitives — common in accessible XFA forms but worth surfacing for analyst review.
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` `f214d4c64d2e15326a0621be60ceff994704f9d8895ebc23a9c8877b693fdb76`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x159	25249 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 2 long base64-like blob(s).

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