PDF malware analysis — malicious · afefce9c71cae9e3

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB

MD5: 38ec3b8b14ddc23247f5ff773b906f20 SHA-1: 226509cf59acb7b4f78cf4379b8196615312be17 SHA-256: afefce9c71cae9e39bef8493a50c5bacc4849dbe4d4eb9ae61cce4b1bf3622bd

138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

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

The PDF file contains an embedded artifact and triggers critical heuristics for CVE-2010-0188, indicating it exploits a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. ClamAV also detected it as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-90. The embedded file is likely the malicious payload delivered by the exploit.

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` `1ecb98ce1431426adcb54371666b7911e0e33a188a633702e22e290e27e3c0c2`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x5D	13415 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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