PDF malware analysis — malicious · d245599826c9dc0a

MALICIOUS

PDF

78.2 KB

MD5: 2cb0cbf5ef64208637f9ea915ad23abb SHA-1: 563cf2f6c3d373f36f325ce3175b811949222209 SHA-256: d245599826c9dc0af5bda791cb4ac4202a0c35c103c259b3a17000b6055a0302

78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF sample contains a critical heuristic indicating exploitation of CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to LibTIFF XFA image handling. This suggests the document is designed to execute arbitrary code upon opening in a vulnerable reader. No document body text or scripts were extracted, but the exploit itself is sufficient evidence of malicious intent.

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` `4efe23e57d6d1e886ed92b9d55a6ce9ba55234977f9c343098465d6f9ba16763`	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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