PDF malware analysis — malicious · af2c9103d777d8e3

MALICIOUS

PDF

3.1 KB

MD5: 03b53753eb2a342852af405ba67e1496 SHA-1: 53d1cd8cf15df813fd12d96dd83f0fb60ea3a2e7 SHA-256: af2c9103d777d8e391f9ee414af061b65ccf25bc334b84e535c52881df2aa0a5

78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains indicators of the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, targeting a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of XFA forms and TIFF images. The presence of an XFA form and a decompressed binary stream suggests the exploit payload is embedded within the document. This exploit is known to facilitate arbitrary code execution, commonly used to download and run further malicious content.

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.
XFA form low PDF_XFA

PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
ASCII85Decode filter (with exploit indicators) low PDF_FILTER_85

ASCII85 encoding filter present alongside exploit delivery indicators — uncommon outside of obfuscation
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
`stream_000_off000001e9.bin` `345d53893ebb59aa52a24618b42cd15056ded5f93dfd136e1550f3876da60e90`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x1E9	13000 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 2 long base64-like blob(s).

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