PDF malware analysis — malicious · b5fe05ec9865f198

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.3 KB

MD5: fa6c6aec0489a0a91d6a918eff127bee SHA-1: e690e84f39a187605536426acfc6c43e98a1c80d SHA-256: b5fe05ec9865f19824ccf259f93535d5ff0c120ae7f632685c6544d70310a115

78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment T1190 Exploit Public-Facing Application

The PDF document contains an embedded file and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, which targets a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of XFA forms and TIFF images. This indicates the document is designed to deliver a malicious payload by exploiting this known vulnerability. The embedded file is likely the payload.

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` `f5301ca08355232b6614eae35bcb8a8883111007dd934ef0dee4c5b986a7d537`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x51	13430 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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