PDF malware analysis — malicious · bff5c9f8bfeb1b25

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB

MD5: 0e553674ea82e21566fecf8314aa1846 SHA-1: 80079b1968cb37e680bbcc3c50683957a0a543c0 SHA-256: bff5c9f8bfeb1b25c0bb319dec5c72881fa3b07461ecf8359aafa2f00e6dfb91

138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204 Malicious File T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form with a malicious TIFF image payload, triggering the CVE-2010-0188 exploit. ClamAV also detected this file as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-90. The embedded file suggests a secondary stage payload is likely delivered.

Heuristics 5

Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit — CVE-2010-0188 critical CVE likely CVE_2010_0188

PDF contains XFA image data with an inline crafted TIFF payload and shellcode/delivery markers. This is the data-bound variant of the CVE-2010-0188 Adobe Reader LibTIFF/XFA exploit shape.
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-90 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-90
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_obj0001.bin` `08a914e3ce2cddd6f1446efc95c2efa89fcd24b98ee2a360fb0db82f2cb80697`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x5D	13473 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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