PDF malware analysis — malicious · bfc96503b7679bb3

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.3 KB

MD5: 23f7b13b63b6faa9a144fb8af9c0b460 SHA-1: 35733aef6dac1908222f5e204f1c299a83b084d4 SHA-256: bfc96503b7679bb307b215c0a0be9b537d2e9e00ee843dc5c232a3954a5f45df

160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The file is a PDF document that contains an embedded exploit targeting CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader. Static analysis detected an XFA form and an embedded script payload, strongly indicating malicious intent. The embedded file, 'embedded_file_obj0006.bin', is likely the second-stage 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
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_obj0006.bin` `d3603705a8b8b38607914ad81e06491a75276f5d6fc64a7c00e6cce400f50bd0`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 6 at offset 0x413	30814 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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