PDF malware analysis — malicious · f3ea1ddfd44a1178

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.3 KB

MD5: a7235b0c2944109bf9fd247d41d91a81 SHA-1: 887fed8641083d9109c3624d6b3d4af80cd16ea8 SHA-256: f3ea1ddfd44a1178440496d43e326c4674801b6d3941de33be4223a91c784988

218 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

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

The PDF sample exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to LibTIFF XFA image processing. This exploit allows for the execution of arbitrary code on the victim's machine. The embedded artifact, 'embedded_file_obj0008.bin', was also flagged by ClamAV as malicious, confirming the exploit's payload.

Heuristics 7

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
ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV

ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
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_obj0008.bin` `fbb6cbcd913cd1e13f75d6d0d5d9dcd92b85a92d33f3a86a679a74d87036bc19`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0x408	30701 bytes
Detection ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10 Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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