PDF malware analysis — malicious · b7d8ef7fd3896c6b

MALICIOUS

PDF

271.9 KB

MD5: 2cc51f4f60afc894e434c62c2011252b SHA-1: 041b261c4f87389b5f9cac99e3f007372f7aa3d6 SHA-256: b7d8ef7fd3896c6baf7819328b0ed183a07546fe6bf405ceae66a3a518e50ad0

78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The sample is a PDF document that contains an embedded file and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit. This indicates that the document is designed to exploit a vulnerability in Adobe Reader to execute arbitrary code. The embedded file, named 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin', is likely the malicious payload. The XFA form and embedded file heuristics further support the exploitation vector.

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` `1f0cd1e1380a9acae9bc8e2b4ea8e99b6ae05b5e0962f94c8b98d9fc5aa05bf0`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x51	13442 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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