PDF malware analysis — malicious · b86adaee634e632f

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.0 KB

MD5: ba27fe9ad4a85b732b80b3aae4ce711e SHA-1: 9c83b74d937f5238a8a39db252ec45ad132b353d SHA-256: b86adaee634e632f65e44c8cc1a9b36b7af074701a604f7d4c5aa675f9aeb0c1

80 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded stream that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, targeting a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of XFA forms. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution on the victim's machine. No document body text was available for further analysis.

Heuristics 5

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.
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
PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED

The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PDFSyntaxError. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
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_001_off000002b0.bin` `7ee6f691f48ba3725bb3d04e963895c83bb80e2b90a322ebe75bc7cc3fb2dc4f`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x2B0	47414 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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