PDF malware analysis — malicious · b68f01fc5fa46a22

MALICIOUS

PDF

3.1 KB

MD5: 8f7ac3187e1e06ee9a0267408a2f0a8a SHA-1: 4b220e94649c12159c2537ad079d8f6beab91939 SHA-256: b68f01fc5fa46a22f83e1f0f114b2c2a63e3fbbc70a732b5c648d2215d084164

78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an XFA form and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. The exploit is embedded within an XFA image/tif payload. This suggests the file is designed to execute arbitrary code upon opening in a vulnerable version of Adobe Reader.

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.
XFA form low PDF_XFA

PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
ASCII85Decode filter (with exploit indicators) low PDF_FILTER_85

ASCII85 encoding filter present alongside exploit delivery indicators — uncommon outside of obfuscation
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_000_off000001e9.bin` `12e5521191dc8985904843738c10be23134722ea5b3ff04f6c10cffea872b7f4`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x1E9	13000 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 2 long base64-like blob(s).

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