PDF malware analysis — malicious · ba4818aafb42ceac

MALICIOUS

PDF

3.9 KB Authoring application: rxode (via va)

MD5: f468785adf7e539d5244886b3893f010 SHA-1: e2f45a00f67948a9127a06d16c31a3e5f7255888 SHA-256: ba4818aafb42ceacc19c915895eeeb810b8f9ffed25dbd188c466d43c1ada80d

98 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and triggers a critical heuristic for the CVE-2010-0188 exploit in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This indicates the document is designed to exploit this vulnerability upon opening. The embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0041.bin' is likely the secondary payload. The XFA form and embedded file heuristics further support the exploit delivery mechanism.

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 script payload in PDF stream medium PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD

PDF stream bytes contain an HTML/XFA <script> tag without accompanying Windows shell-execution primitives — common in accessible XFA forms but worth surfacing for analyst review.
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_obj0041.bin` `a42827c79696366d11c4c72f5211ba659b60a4461e2b1f88e9656f980e0d3d56`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0x53	9837 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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