PDF malware analysis — malicious · cef75edb2b6969a4

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.0 KB

MD5: 31d7626c6dd2e31e7623b2f9afc0238c SHA-1: 1d4f9ab99f944bcd1344a6b073a63a92ab61b5d9 SHA-256: cef75edb2b6969a452c7425b1f8baffb19a2af48bc1eeda117421a5b8c89c73b

78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded object that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, targeting a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of XFA forms. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely to download and run a secondary payload. The embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin' is the artifact associated with this exploit.

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` `de234b8147c6a90f9921dbc0c49f7ee3a1571e525bb997e4e2df0fbd94018c20`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x51	13562 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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