PDF malware analysis — malicious · e7560dd39407a551

MALICIOUS

PDF

71.0 KB

MD5: 1b23914c7a7a1fee82045679da0d672e SHA-1: caf3128ee8afd9d303a84492c1056004f9b5c943 SHA-256: e7560dd39407a551ceae4968e8f68e1ad0fccd79c1b697f8bf80dd32ea586bfb

78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability, which is a known exploit for Adobe Reader. This indicates the document is designed to deliver a malicious payload by exploiting this specific client-side vulnerability. No scripts were extracted, and the document body was unreadable.

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
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.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0001.bin` `4039e9c998334ff031d82f5ca110045c516b3c5ea8785535b9ad33d41166a47b`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x4F	13560 bytes

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