PDF malware analysis — malicious · f3e6ee38fe34ec8e

MALICIOUS

PDF

3.8 KB Authoring application: rxode (via va)

MD5: 8c7c0d0a1fd68c0394dceb3e621013ee SHA-1: cf363ced68cfede41a4ca66d50a90d6e60aa6e6d SHA-256: f3e6ee38fe34ec8e27e9d14be85fd86fbc112c49dd9ce16af40e96db1c708442

98 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204 Malicious File T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution T1059 Command and Scripting Interpreter T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and exploits CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to LibTIFF XFA image processing. This indicates the document is designed to execute arbitrary code upon opening. The embedded file, 'embedded_file_obj0041.bin', is likely the delivered payload. The attack pattern is consistent with a malicious document designed to exploit a software vulnerability for initial compromise.

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 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_obj0041.bin` `3f078fff5a231f8d106b7970cbfd142b92df0db0c10dc309574e215a3d3be273`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0x53	9778 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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