PDF malware analysis — malicious · ef6d3216d4ce2e6a

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.4 KB

MD5: 2bb8edf0cb6a6d6f542fa9bf6f2a6d1e SHA-1: 2c9776916cd846b834846b6980f238727e002e74 SHA-256: ef6d3216d4ce2e6a34659d24bc17734692582db7ebbe1350cb84214720a8f212

160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204 Malicious File Execution T1204.002 Malicious File Execution: Malicious PDF

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, which is a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms. This indicates the document is designed to deliver a malicious payload upon opening in a vulnerable application. The ClamAV detection further confirms the malicious nature of the file.

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` `a898a36dbe93990599dabab04781cca3dee0c316ceba7952bcea19906eee04de`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 6 at offset 0x414	33306 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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