PDF malware analysis — malicious · e8f7f5f218aa3778

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB

MD5: dcb80424a8ed594ccceebc627433f1d6 SHA-1: ae64aa73bbb3b7117913607f275bd067097ca831 SHA-256: e8f7f5f218aa37789039e4bd723bfc1522754fbc79b408689ad2297af8304ff6

138 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.002 Spearphishing Attachment

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form with a payload targeting the LibTIFF component of Adobe Reader, specifically exploiting CVE-2010-0188. This indicates the file is designed to deliver a malicious payload upon opening in a vulnerable version of Adobe Reader. The ClamAV detection 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` `93ce5319981dc0b56163243aa23b1999a45e7abb4a24c24daceaf12e7af1da14`	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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