PDF malware analysis — malicious · cae853b2931853ac

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.5 KB

MD5: a2254fa0f5e7ec0dd79d82d37fae3b8d SHA-1: ecb2b983f14bcd094a6bbddc2c853192c9732f04 SHA-256: cae853b2931853ac5678dd5f8d33f4368783a4626d684cd4ac61fdddbff0682e

218 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF file that exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution on the victim's machine. The embedded artifact 'embedded_file_obj0006.bin' likely contains the second-stage payload.

Heuristics 7

Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit — CVE-2010-0188 critical CVE likely CVE_2010_0188

PDF 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.
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` `2abef21e1f1a24e5cad6e9eb3e150f3bc1916686d4f7279b22936f1649bbaaef`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 6 at offset 0x413	33317 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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