PDF malware analysis — malicious · cae53341eafe6b17

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.2 KB

MD5: 43582ba79203e40ec67e8afcb0b4692c SHA-1: 96d17756ffdce90c4d7679b753ee95dfcd82b778 SHA-256: cae53341eafe6b176c1bdc51b16c046a81099ad87330fce32b0eca980cc7b5ac

78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF document contains an embedded XFA form with a payload targeting CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF processing. This indicates the document is designed to exploit this vulnerability upon opening, leading to arbitrary code execution. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable, but the critical heuristic firing strongly suggests exploitation.

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` `587de0126dd1080ece58e5b9435be4f8b4442a38690f71d6977ddad3d75cc1ef`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x51	13429 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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