PDF malware analysis — malicious · f90e3104c1d879af

MALICIOUS

PDF

2.5 KB

MD5: dfc5df7978b03904e4dd25baf9ef620b SHA-1: 20db07de965f00467c886cda9e098effeca63584 SHA-256: f90e3104c1d879af5bf84ef01ebce9bad51e8269ae317f697620f40aeff6c642

78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded object that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, targeting a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of LibTIFF XFA images. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution upon opening the document with a vulnerable version of Adobe Reader. The embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin' is likely the payload.

Heuristics 4

Adobe Reader LibTIFF XFA image exploit — CVE-2010-0188 critical CVE likely CVE_2010_0188

PDF contains XFA image data with an inline crafted TIFF payload and shellcode/delivery markers. This is the data-bound variant of the CVE-2010-0188 Adobe Reader LibTIFF/XFA exploit shape.
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_obj0001.bin` `56b3f23e086fa05a902922022bea41300880db6d6cef8d08bbeb81c132be8525`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x51	12906 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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