PDF malware analysis — malicious · cdda9d2133eaa355

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.0 KB

MD5: 1aae785edcde5375692f6aaff52fcc29 SHA-1: fd880a2b16903618271ca23b5839bee4a2d95353 SHA-256: cdda9d2133eaa355f8412dd31b4bbcaf99b8c86f2d35719c83bba913634af989

80 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded stream that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, targeting a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of LibTIFF XFA images. This exploit is designed to allow arbitrary code execution. The embedded artifact, stream_002_off000002b0.bin, is the decompressed payload of this exploit. The primary attack vector is the exploitation of this known vulnerability.

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 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
PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED

The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PDFSyntaxError. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
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
`stream_002_off000002b0.bin` `7bec84bd1965eb402c067f3809507d4ce593be2764da9f14d3662a892886ff71`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x2B0	47389 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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