PDF malware analysis — malicious · c287711726511fb4

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.5 KB Created: sdtres

MD5: 266c64f3739c4343d498c9342f5cad8e SHA-1: fea681b8153da12d3513a630c169dc71de6292a9 SHA-256: c287711726511fb46a1bf8e13073bd5f855f3b0e273f51d39a8f70159f53b3aa

158 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains embedded content and triggers critical heuristics for CVE-2010-0188, indicating an exploit targeting Adobe Reader. The embedded file and script payload further support the malicious nature of the document, likely intended to deliver a secondary payload.

Heuristics 5

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

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0011.bin` `a798d3bc69f9cbe6b0cafb44770e9d89e72f7691360814e1bbe1e0dcd5279998`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x45F	33227 bytes

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