PDF malware analysis — malicious · e3a36b648e2bb4ad

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB

MD5: ee5cb726a067d3b64b812fb1579119b5 SHA-1: fea46d257dfa6904cafea0c0d3a4e68ce4ba0149 SHA-256: e3a36b648e2bb4ad163c4bb8bcff67886d185aa7c4382a9af3581d9bc3ddcb77

140 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an embedded object that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit in Adobe Reader. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution, likely to download and run a secondary payload. The ClamAV detection 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-90' further confirms its malicious nature.

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.
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-90 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-90
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` `f62c16f47c34fbf41be1471f18bede6303dc205e74a897b5196d0f14ab4d3644`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x5D	13473 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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