PDF malware analysis — malicious · ee158b37e88a8415

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.9 KB Created: 2013-04-29 11:13:02

MD5: 2fed5b218a960cfcfa0f74884b9db910 SHA-1: 91e432759e9c1c34cb3bc0a62a73fbf7a82325e7 SHA-256: ee158b37e88a8415b9306e3e9369c01f9ac824c32044cde259291414d7405c1c

160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1559.001 Component Object Model Hijacking

The PDF file contains an embedded exploit targeting CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component. This exploit is designed to allow arbitrary code execution upon opening the document. The embedded file and script payload markers further indicate malicious intent. The ClamAV detection confirms the presence of this specific exploit.

Heuristics 6

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.
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10
Embedded script payload in PDF stream medium PDF_EMBEDDED_SCRIPT_PAYLOAD

PDF stream bytes contain an HTML/XFA <script> tag without accompanying Windows shell-execution primitives — common in accessible XFA forms but worth surfacing for analyst review.
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_obj0006.bin` `38f2cd5569fc30aebcb487244ac31054b81d950230855113d5d89b310f52aea4`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 6 at offset 0x42F	78541 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 2 long base64-like blob(s).

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