PDF malware analysis — malicious · b0db91f4bd70f9d1

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.4 KB

MD5: 520b3671fcec613600d5e34a28fe5da4 SHA-1: c81cc5bda98d44d42660653913bb8d9a396dac57 SHA-256: b0db91f4bd70f9d1522b785a4c29ac621e34e337e7f41efdf9a00791846765b7

78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204 User Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded artifact and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating it exploits a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of TIFF images within XFA forms. The embedded file is likely the malicious payload delivered by this exploit. The attack pattern involves tricking a user into opening a malicious PDF that leverages this known vulnerability.

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.
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` `6c1bbaabb04e9334aeafb281dbef5c9388791224418b00eccc696f639aff3944`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x51	13264 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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