PDF malware analysis — malicious · d1ea97f7f586f2cd

MALICIOUS

PDF

3.0 KB

MD5: 280054c550b144ab6c043dbba73e8f7a SHA-1: 8d04e27e72b45f7adf6d5c5fc455ed7a000f37e6 SHA-256: d1ea97f7f586f2cdf4c32a5eaf529139c79cc18a67bfab230ddfb5b784971de7

78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form that exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader. This exploit is designed to execute a malicious payload, likely a second-stage downloader or implant, from the embedded TIFF image. The document body is unreadable, but the critical heuristic confirms the exploit and its target vulnerability.

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` `b43ffb7a6cee38994a6cfad8d927957eafb3e548ac7976a8027918579507b431`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x51	24940 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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