PDF malware analysis — malicious · c188d36a4a852311

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.4 KB

MD5: 2d5378ccc03664d7d800c861650be6b0 SHA-1: 96b20335e92b2eacad2934f89e343ef7c71ceefc SHA-256: c188d36a4a8523113e1a84d08ec2a9456df9393c1d18a1f26c45411ccce5c61a

160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an embedded exploit targeting CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader, as indicated by multiple critical heuristic firings. The embedded artifact 'embedded_file_obj0006.bin' is likely the malicious payload. The XFA form and embedded file heuristics further support the exploitation vector. No scripts were extracted, but the exploit itself is sufficient to classify the attack.

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` `9aebf59847fb4d66ecdef059299c805b10c6bdc69ba399ff638adfd66a1af0f0`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 6 at offset 0x40E	33426 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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