PDF malware analysis — malicious · edb81f4e8c8f733a

MALICIOUS

PDF

36.8 KB

MD5: cecd1a442651eee6a1472be51c1e4278 SHA-1: d707c21880e791ac1961531ffdfa8060057ff03c SHA-256: edb81f4e8c8f733af164e66172c7183bffb9dcd4b2fa546094807462afc45bed

80 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains embedded content and triggers a critical heuristic for CVE-2010-0188, an Adobe Reader exploit related to XFA forms. This indicates the file is designed to exploit this vulnerability upon opening in a vulnerable application. The exploit likely leads to the execution of a secondary payload, though no specific details of that payload were extracted.

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_002_off000002d5.bin` `6f8d52a5dc1f7acae8cdf16c728f0fea7162580d7c96b57707c0b3b3e4b2079f`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x2D5	49041 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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