PDF malware analysis — malicious · c5e9aabb60b7d40f

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.8 KB

MD5: 5b9833172f07d30ef0b3e35597a5da6d SHA-1: c6990899649a0f1a84875d259c94d018e1ebf5f9 SHA-256: c5e9aabb60b7d40f4cde1ab6f8b94ea0c36e33245fa97d7bde6c7a2180049b0e

78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204 Malicious Link T1204.001 Malicious Link: Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Click Fraud

The PDF file contains an embedded artifact and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. The XFA form structure further supports this. The embedded file is likely the second-stage payload delivered by the exploit.

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` `5ec0d473ee9d12f367df9819f8708481ac3ee1f7861e57012b064878752c2c0b`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x51	13438 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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