PDF malware analysis — malicious · ecd8c70de2756797

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.6 KB

MD5: 2db074ade0268aeba697cf302026580f SHA-1: abba51083224ed65b3c9bcf7ba1074c1bb26e020 SHA-256: ecd8c70de2756797346da604118dc6f638ff4bdbc7ee126857a971103e1bde09

140 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204 Malicious Link T1204.001 Malicious Link: Embedded Content T1559 Component Object Model Hijacking T1559.001 Component Object Model Hijacking: Component Object Model Hijacking

The PDF file contains an embedded object that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, targeting a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of XFA forms. This exploit is designed to download and execute a secondary payload, as indicated by the 'Pdf.Exploit.Dropped-90' ClamAV detection and the presence of a suspicious embedded file. The attack pattern involves luring the user into opening a malicious PDF that exploits a known vulnerability.

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` `df0f1d3bab1dd4431b1d7beb0c97d7e9ba6320404f9422e40758d832fd53b503`	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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