PDF malware analysis — malicious · c55c828c2fc0c19d

MALICIOUS

PDF

1.8 KB

MD5: 0d76e33406bc931b5aa8fc4655ffe84b SHA-1: 2868bac931dd51da9080b0babd7d7fa5612b32f0 SHA-256: c55c828c2fc0c19dc5afbde1277de0e4446a3459237bddffd681e517bf51898a

78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204 User Execution

The PDF sample contains an embedded file and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating it exploits a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component via an XFA form. This suggests the document is designed to deliver a second-stage payload upon opening in a vulnerable reader.

Heuristics 4

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.
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` `b7781a10fb8c68383eb12701fbe5e12b3d9f0d5fb70c827a4863b0e3b08f9263`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x50	12745 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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