PDF malware analysis — malicious · c5ab3ce0a0db0585

MALICIOUS

PDF

3.4 KB

MD5: 258730649cdd4e1262751644567e9cde SHA-1: 589a00d77442f68d465f264fabb32958fe01f182 SHA-256: c5ab3ce0a0db058521f04ad40d0c66ddbfffcd2c17a3fbeb9582b3baeb04a681

78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF document that contains an XFA form and utilizes the ASCII85Decode filter. Static analysis identified a critical vulnerability, CVE-2010-0188, related to an XFA image exploit. This indicates the document is designed to exploit a known Adobe Reader vulnerability to execute arbitrary code upon opening.

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.
XFA form low PDF_XFA

PDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
ASCII85Decode filter (with exploit indicators) low PDF_FILTER_85

ASCII85 encoding filter present alongside exploit delivery indicators — uncommon outside of obfuscation
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
`stream_000_off000001e9.bin` `c42e33c9564c54f96f1e1a2fb650073e5c51a390352c6ee3c1a30460fe343eb7`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x1E9	13469 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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