PDF malware analysis — malicious · bc819906d2c40dc8

MALICIOUS

PDF

3.8 KB Authoring application: l (via va)

MD5: 4da25e2210691ba0a4dfab38c4864976 SHA-1: 6da6caa8c0abd7fc75b7d1ba0cca5059337c3798 SHA-256: bc819906d2c40dc888880267119f2adaace0330c381266aaa46678ccb312ed48

158 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an embedded exploit targeting CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit is designed to download and execute a secondary payload. The embedded artifact 'embedded_file_obj0041.bin' likely contains this payload. No specific malware family was identified, but the exploit delivery mechanism is clear.

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.Dropped-84 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-84
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` `341d45fc72fc8765399e71402d05b7666ed87c90d148bb5b98f5685f3a52a92b`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0x53	9766 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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