PDF malware analysis — malicious · b0b4495aa0a26f21

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.0 KB

MD5: 412c6532136ea6f04b489cabed0fb705 SHA-1: dde1f8cb9b047f89a11a7c73fda7d1f165b464da SHA-256: b0b4495aa0a26f21222802d9c7f1e6aa5e48eb7c7a60f0765a1de54172d266b0

80 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains embedded content and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, which targets a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of LibTIFF XFA images. This exploit allows for the execution of arbitrary code on the victim's machine. No document body text was available for further analysis, but the exploit itself indicates a malicious intent to compromise the user's system.

Heuristics 5

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.
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: PDFSyntaxError. 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
`stream_002_off000002b0.bin` `727ca0773f4f60d5d049f0ba778614cbb7839e80ef19150b2834a0ec7e44d178`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x2B0	47367 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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