PDF malware analysis — malicious · b58bb88993b6f8eb

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB

MD5: fbdeff9230ea04e50136d3725d851975 SHA-1: 9e9dfe4485e88fe1b5343ed68f53a479b365363d SHA-256: b58bb88993b6f8ebebc239c404560b35a3d32f3c2b5daecb7a1083d36a1e280d

138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form with a malicious payload targeting CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of TIFF images within XFA forms. This exploit is designed to achieve arbitrary code execution on the victim's machine. The embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin' is likely the second-stage payload.

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` `c5665c143e0f3df6b4f0a4de799357abfdd6ac6a93d5d905cfd494f805e36ab6`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x5D	13473 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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