PDF malware analysis — malicious · cf03cc054e87f191

MALICIOUS

PDF

294.7 KB

MD5: 88f8c7bb030b0e9712ba04909d531c2b SHA-1: 0ab3687ba2a47568136e60f33e8746061cf5199d SHA-256: cf03cc054e87f1918e5c4c99be264ec6c17f68fd8819bd964cdc680f37665635

80 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1559.001 Component Object Model Hijacking

The PDF file contains an embedded exploit targeting CVE-2010-0188, a critical vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of XFA forms and TIFF images. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely leading to the download and execution of a secondary payload. The embedded artifact 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin' is highly suspicious and likely contains the malicious payload.

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.
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: PSSyntaxError. 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
`embedded_file_obj0001.bin` `a1ff53978512929cbdb43b04307abb0d3ba16118f9b369dd240cf2d00212525c`	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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