PDF malware analysis — malicious · cdb98576d5dfbcd0

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB

MD5: 02ae0c9e1fa7924a9c7d8d4f2bd09c39 SHA-1: 2d87625f3b4d280dc0ea600f3774c1c3ceb4d034 SHA-256: cdb98576d5dfbcd042b1eb6bc50fef201fedb91a3aba906d2bd60865c8a4fa1d

138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit. This exploit is known to target Adobe Reader and is used to deliver a secondary payload. The ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-90' further confirms the malicious nature of the file. No scripts were extracted from this sample.

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` `c6e508c4103368c69ffa6c985f6ad7ad79b9d18f0d2216d02cebf6d5dfbc401e`	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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