PDF malware analysis — malicious · b96f4df86060552c

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.8 KB

MD5: 9733256478f50ad7d480753c3c0d6c40 SHA-1: 5695c17e141a8df8f592cf49c10e358f48f52fc1 SHA-256: b96f4df86060552cd393043c2cec81ec1c2361d0ca5f80e8e8c028580308ed47

78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded artifact that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, targeting a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of TIFF images within XFA forms. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely leading to the download and execution of a secondary payload. The embedded file itself is a potential indicator of the delivered malware.

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` `5ec0d473ee9d12f367df9819f8708481ac3ee1f7861e57012b064878752c2c0b`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x51	13438 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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