PDF malware analysis — malicious · ea14287cacf59253

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.4 KB

MD5: 312fb0310897a350784da57f14bc9a58 SHA-1: d8432b4432d4e4d58f79d56d9a85b23c40838007 SHA-256: ea14287cacf592538fd8a4426bfe3e016cd31c8e7c373440ab38c200e7e2f558

80 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1559.001 Component Object Model and Distributed Component Object Model: Component and Object and COM Hijinking

The sample is a PDF file that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability, which targets Adobe Reader's handling of XFA forms containing malformed TIFF images. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution. The critical heuristic firing directly indicates this exploit, and the embedded file further supports the delivery mechanism.

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
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` `447443f3a5ec50688f5c6cec743887b16ed197f5505dbe74ed608e69117461bd`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x51	13430 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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