PDF malware analysis — malicious · c60a4bb76f03cfe0

MALICIOUS

PDF

148.7 KB

MD5: a4b53a3f36fe8ee2ebae83f838197910 SHA-1: b1dda6c83c7c251682315cab1a0c186f5b71e93d SHA-256: c60a4bb76f03cfe0322ef60e878efdf64789d235450027628171bc0ac6e81a1d

78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The critical heuristic firing indicates that this PDF document exploits CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to LibTIFF XFA image processing. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely leading to the download and execution of a second-stage payload. The embedded file further supports the malicious nature of the document.

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` `9efcadcf54d61c852426dcea16c335c62574592bf66e5d491c3d2dcd1da60d9b`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x51	13430 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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