PDF malware analysis — malicious · b412f1e249a6d398

MALICIOUS

PDF

3.9 KB Authoring application: l (via va)

MD5: 8c92ee70d9778cc785b4055b534884c9 SHA-1: 0757391362c0fe2c2527a22180a4f283bb0d278f SHA-256: b412f1e249a6d398b92e9fba8718c25dd7ac5f7d108b000d8dcc2d044a0275f4

158 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains an embedded exploit targeting CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader, as indicated by critical heuristic firings. This exploit is designed to execute a malicious payload, likely delivered via the embedded file object. The ClamAV detection further confirms its malicious nature.

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: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-84 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-84
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_obj0041.bin` `3bc501c04a51947c0e2d4c9868c81bf1c42f791bbc61d3806cb125a3ceabf7f5`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0x53	9779 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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