PDF malware analysis — malicious · cc65a1eedafd8aa2

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.2 KB

MD5: 6146135fe5ded1ea8f89026e3c0a5602 SHA-1: 262d0de99b85d44ade0f1b4d29e029300d736f79 SHA-256: cc65a1eedafd8aa2f5e75f703fb822e50da249939496d2c7cf7aa0c072c2928c

78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF document that exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability. This vulnerability allows for arbitrary code execution when the PDF is opened in a vulnerable version of Adobe Reader. The critical heuristic firing directly indicates the exploit and the embedded file suggests a secondary payload delivery mechanism.

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` `c9a0f4b6ca55a8f5b2866e5e9459933ddd2543aa21963c9f4e37e1211d978a78`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x50	13282 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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