PDF malware analysis — malicious · c997f1d3dd1a84c8

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB

MD5: 879e51a3eeed57153cb7f2b54e876bda SHA-1: 011f8c070eb8a06ff29e5efaffef1ecc4023a84b SHA-256: c997f1d3dd1a84c8c93b2c9450a73241c0c3218af10f9533d7d5f189ad879931

138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File

The PDF file contains an embedded malicious object that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to LibTIFF XFA image parsing. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely leading to the download and execution of a second-stage payload. The critical heuristic firings strongly indicate this exploit delivery mechanism.

Heuristics 5

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.
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-90 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-90
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` `5f7869d86f0efee85a0e224220cf4ed76fcde623fda22d2a8a3fbda67cf25570`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x5D	13473 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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