PDF malware analysis — malicious · ca2ceea2cc599ef7

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.6 KB

MD5: 1de56b03cbf65816ec73da4f243033aa SHA-1: 06eb24ae11ecf770e1292891a18e1a05be32ba36 SHA-256: ca2ceea2cc599ef7079bed86d4f161eb11ef0723bc06cfb930f3576d9be71118

190 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204 Malicious File T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The file is a PDF that has been flagged by multiple heuristics and ClamAV as malicious, specifically indicating an exploit for CVE-2010-0188. An embedded file was also detected, which likely contains the secondary payload. The ML classifier also strongly indicated maliciousness. The exact nature of the embedded payload is not detailed, but the exploit itself is the primary attack vector.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

Heuristics 6

ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10
ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV

ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
Embedded script payload in PDF stream medium PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD

PDF stream bytes contain an HTML/XFA <script> tag without accompanying Windows shell-execution primitives — common in accessible XFA forms but worth surfacing for analyst review.
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_obj0006.bin` `2458bf4c76a7436e5a9a91b62885e8df79d9384a14759597be53f32f7c423a0b`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 6 at offset 0x40E	33710 bytes
Detection ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10 Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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