PDF malware analysis — malicious · f3e55ed9b62308b2

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.3 KB

MD5: 205194e7dacb24926fa2ec4ec761b9e8 SHA-1: a1fc95365099f4a2e7134ce0392bc5c273560238 SHA-256: f3e55ed9b62308b2a326dc42cf8878481bb9fc5d57ed8dc94c1ced7d8140d2ba

160 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1027 Obfuscated Files or Information

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and triggers critical heuristics for CVE-2010-0188, indicating an exploit targeting Adobe Reader. The embedded file, 'embedded_file_obj0006.bin', is likely the delivered payload. The XFA form and embedded file detections further support the exploitation vector.

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` `385106f4f30164ad727b949766e684246a0d95e01d5301bafd26a6d6c8adf85d`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 6 at offset 0x411	30759 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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