MALICIOUS
156
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link
T1204.001 Malicious Link: Malicious Link
T1204.002 Malicious Link: Malicious File
The critical ClamAV heuristic firings indicate the presence of the CVE-2010-0188 exploit within the PDF. This exploit is known to target PDF readers to execute arbitrary code. The embedded file further supports the delivery of a malicious payload. The document body is unreadable, but the exploit and embedded artifact strongly suggest a malicious intent to compromise the user's system.
Heuristics 5
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ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10 critical CLAMAV_DETECTIONClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10
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ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAVClamAV 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.
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Embedded script payload in PDF stream medium PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOADPDF 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.
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Embedded file low PDF_EMBEDDEDPDF embeds a file attachment — could carry an executable or another weaponised document as a nested payload
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XFA form low PDF_XFAPDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
Extracted artifacts 1
Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.
| Filename | Kind | Source | Size |
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embedded_file_obj0004.bin44f9c074a0142e9e069acd1ea8c45a7641b047ec302394bafd40d95739e2da1f |
pdf-embedded-file | PDF EmbeddedFile object 4 at offset 0x45D | 14694 bytes |
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Detection
ClamAV:
Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10
Obfuscation or payload:
unlikely
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