PDF malware analysis — malicious · ecea511f4f3abb53

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.5 KB Created: qHFdTlfA Authoring application: gfhersdd

MD5: 407135bb50749b7e5baf132762907d8d SHA-1: e9f7024ae2b8fd9a75a0afc3ecd9671dcf367ce9 SHA-256: ecea511f4f3abb53b0fc8380b6262b992ca176c3c35e8426305739c463536f12

80 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded stream that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, targeting Adobe Reader. This exploit is known to be used for delivering secondary payloads. The heuristic 'CVE_2010_0188' directly identifies this vulnerability.

Heuristics 5

Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit — CVE-2010-0188 critical CVE likely CVE_2010_0188

PDF contains the CVE-2010-0188 exploit template: XFA JavaScript heap-spray setup, a generated TIFF image payload, and assignment of that TIFF data to an XFA image field rawValue to trigger Adobe Reader's LibTIFF parser.
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: PDFSyntaxError. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
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
`stream_001_off000002e7.bin` `29344ab84bd8ca48cd387cf3b3814fce5a5db0286fe82ff5f09b5f2cf1dee1ef`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x2E7	59474 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

Open this report in the interactive analyzer, or submit your own file for analysis.