PDF malware analysis — malicious · e334420e4ffd5da9

MALICIOUS

PDF

27.4 KB Created: 2010-24-43 58:84:00 Authoring application: Above Able (via Able About)

MD5: bd972bb5d426c8a2ec0e7ad4e8b37ce9 SHA-1: 1f7dac7d4f9628f2410429b1020dd9ff9069d9f9 SHA-256: e334420e4ffd5da9fc8d0b2f7788d12e712e81d82ef150c2bf1f202e233e5b65

80 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1559.001 Component Object Model Hijacking

The PDF file contains an embedded artifact and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, indicating it exploits a vulnerability in Adobe Reader. The embedded file is likely the malicious payload delivered by this exploit. The document body text appears to be malformed or obfuscated, providing no clear user-facing lure.

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` `dbf0b0846d658c06acaf919e2d80cfd1779b8675a9850f9899277c242cbd30b2`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x50	33982 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 3 long base64-like blob(s).

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