PDF malware analysis — malicious · bc0aab6f6f2aadb4

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.4 KB Created: sdtres

MD5: 8642e15ffd0603907fef68305bf7dc9c SHA-1: bc9b26d14734a62a826e2ff7374a3f6e150821dd SHA-256: bc0aab6f6f2aadb43ac83211019ffda6c5d3907a0cf1faad87e8be27918d1095

216 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The file is a PDF document that exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader. This vulnerability allows for arbitrary code execution when the document is opened. The embedded artifact and ClamAV detections confirm the malicious nature of the file, indicating it's designed to deliver a payload.

Heuristics 6

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.
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10
ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV

ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
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

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0011.bin` `e9b5077f47b79191ce75c2eb96ff674d45231157cb867f300c391510218c7c09`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x436	32672 bytes
Detection ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10 Obfuscation or payload: unlikely

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