PDF malware analysis — malicious · ce7c191578a8843c

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.7 KB Created: val Authoring application: %

MD5: 007837e1a00b68c2c4c8ea4afd50d0ba SHA-1: d834ab423fd4495a09dc4866a0a657a2ebc40420 SHA-256: ce7c191578a8843c97d8f787c3641c8d80b2ebddfa7c6081778acacb279777ad

80 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, which targets a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF handling. This exploit is designed to achieve code execution, typically for downloading and running a subsequent stage of malware. No document body text was available for further contextual analysis.

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_001_off0000031c.bin` `c9d76c656b67976b7a643a4eb958d8226dfa3c7a2c0a43127a370030a65f2e41`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x31C	72041 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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