MALICIOUS
98
Risk Score
Malware Insights
MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File
The PDF file contains an embedded JavaScript payload that is likely intended to exploit CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader. The heuristic firings indicate a critical vulnerability exploit and an embedded script payload. The extracted JavaScript is a significant artifact, suggesting it is the primary mechanism for delivering a secondary malicious payload.
Heuristics 5
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Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit — CVE-2010-0188 critical CVE likely CVE_2010_0188PDF contains the CVE-2010-0188 exploit template: XFA JavaScript heap-spray setup, a generated TIFF image payload, and assignment of that TIFF data to an XFA image field rawValue to trigger Adobe Reader's LibTIFF parser.
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Embedded script payload in PDF stream medium PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOADPDF 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.
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Embedded file low PDF_EMBEDDEDPDF embeds a file attachment — could carry an executable or another weaponised document as a nested payload
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XFA form low PDF_XFAPDF uses XML Forms Architecture — can contain script logic
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Suspicious extracted artifact info EXTRACTED_FILE_STATIC_TRIAGEOne 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 |
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stream_001_off00000324.js54ffc14559cc9831c4214e259dc1a57af4fbbd1eff7ea0db4f4435011b29a687 |
decompressed-pdf-stream | PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x324 | 50788 bytes |
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Detection
ClamAV:
No threats found
Obfuscation or payload:
likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
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