PDF malware analysis — malicious · d04b49d6175a0378

MALICIOUS

PDF

3.8 KB Authoring application: rxode (via va)

MD5: 8d99a919e9e504a6b1251747a65c3cec SHA-1: 05cbe7b71b1f63959800248f2cba0f5978f2af51 SHA-256: d04b49d6175a03789b1716adc8b89f7414e92af7a3b59fc2d2e626b6d4676383

98 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The PDF document exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to LibTIFF XFA image processing. This exploit is designed to allow arbitrary code execution when the PDF is opened. An embedded file was also detected, suggesting a potential secondary payload delivery mechanism.

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 script payload in PDF stream medium PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD

PDF stream bytes contain an HTML/XFA <script> tag without accompanying Windows shell-execution primitives — common in accessible XFA forms but worth surfacing for analyst review.
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_obj0041.bin` `f2d528c75b62f93a22b0ad611762478be0aa3bf9be660ea0e958718168ee95fd`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0x53	9840 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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