PDF malware analysis — malicious · de77878b0ee6b2c1

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.0 KB

MD5: 9fab391f50e1c9e7fd5604f790459be9 SHA-1: f7b4b204a98add4b6497a08df75c83cd5d04e920 SHA-256: de77878b0ee6b2c183dc2de0737dbd6c881cbb1ccada27600bcb2519641fbc02

80 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded artifact that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit in Adobe Reader. This exploit is known to be used for delivering malicious payloads. The embedded artifact was identified as a decompressed PDF stream.

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 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: PDFSyntaxError. 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
`stream_001_off000002b0.bin` `49131bc14c972f96a0f8c5cd8b3ee15f885332f45c8cd376885b2c4b4440be1d`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x2B0	47408 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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