PDF malware analysis — malicious · cc2a6cc113faab6a

MALICIOUS

PDF

3.9 KB Authoring application: hXr (via va)

MD5: 54909d9d01d8e874758db9b3e5d69bc5 SHA-1: 4561bbe23c5919ed59c24eb991aaacaa8cc77980 SHA-256: cc2a6cc113faab6a1400799573e36a672a5bb8227eac0fae2716eb8d816c04a3

98 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204 Malicious Link T1204.001 Malicious Link: Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Malicious File

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating an exploit targeting Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. The embedded file, 'embedded_file_obj0041.bin', is likely the delivered payload. The XFA form and embedded file heuristics further support the malicious nature of the document.

Heuristics 5

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.
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_obj0041.bin` `a8e544fc5e3343ab952df04da859707ae929711731fae9045efa245e80aac29c`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0x53	9954 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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