PDF malware analysis — malicious · c29458c786f90d88

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.3 KB

MD5: 8760cdeb6b0f4a770dfaff395ac9ddd5 SHA-1: 36202912d64e2acb7c9a81984523ce085e1b77b2 SHA-256: c29458c786f90d888a288ae6a8aa99c21248f437c9d8b21edcdc5be0ce228121

218 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload that exploits CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload, as indicated by the 'Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10' ClamAV detection on both the main file and the extracted artifact. The document body itself is not human-readable and appears to be obfuscated or corrupted data.

Heuristics 7

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
ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV

ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
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_obj0008.bin` `fb0ecf1b1d43bfcf4da04a3ac77f6894717a05615ea294a14e1d1c3cec3c596b`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0x407	30576 bytes
Detection ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10 Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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