PDF malware analysis — malicious · cb9ad2c8206cb9fe

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB

MD5: 9c0dead73e5f5b873db624a41ef964b6 SHA-1: 932b032bc42be73c71eeb89dc75ed1c6486af1d6 SHA-256: cb9ad2c8206cb9fea24d0cf84a1f4baf413d420ec6c9e924cf06405d2070f9c6

138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an embedded malicious object, identified by ClamAV as Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-90. Static analysis indicates a critical vulnerability exploit for CVE-2010-0188, targeting Adobe Reader's handling of XFA forms and TIFF images. This exploit likely serves to download and execute a second-stage payload.

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` `66333c8df4561d1193d50733b083fe130b187f94426dd60b06a5bd425fcfe701`	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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