PDF malware analysis — malicious · ba28954b39e50b71

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB

MD5: fe7e08ed295595baa36454308cb45da8 SHA-1: ba4c8429c81df1cc1e2eb825b67ce69f1730c44f SHA-256: ba28954b39e50b7159539f85254e40bc70669c97eca8e3a16a706465e55c0bf0

138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an embedded object and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating an exploit targeting Adobe Reader. The deobfuscated JavaScript, while complex, likely facilitates the download and execution of a secondary payload, as suggested by the 'Suspicious extracted artifact' heuristic. The embedded file further supports the payload delivery mechanism.

Heuristics 5

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.
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-90 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-90
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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0001.bin` `2804fa46829f043987dd7a68579274dff2d5ca5b322a9a28c8091ecf579730fe`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x5D	13473 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
`acroform_b64_00.js` `49ac81a338a26fdc0c18c01678ad79ad69270ef4541bfaff6402f0bb43db3d32`	deobfuscated-js	PDF AcroForm base64 (decompressed) at offset 0x58A	8730 bytes

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