PDF malware analysis — malicious · cdf5225ab32e6ff6

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.4 KB

MD5: d400051cc8f340758c35b2a373d323c6 SHA-1: e1496bc77dcf96b8cbd8ca64219065828d412b5a SHA-256: cdf5225ab32e6ff62326e0476a82897a56a15211ac33deafa3d1f224d7224da5

78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204 User Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form with a critical heuristic match for CVE-2010-0188, indicating an exploit targeting Adobe Reader. The embedded file, named 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin', likely contains the secondary payload. The document body is unreadable, but the exploit and embedded file strongly suggest a malicious intent to compromise the user's system.

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` `b3276d86109ea88b91d2abe1680632793ecbc280e7588cc4b9a655a9d35f4bfe`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x51	13430 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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