PDF malware analysis — malicious · fc7ab6981b40be3b

MALICIOUS

PDF

1.8 KB

MD5: 558c1c9e59667763d6a14946c7b827ea SHA-1: 5d14138a731462277cc486a22a7cbf56514343e7 SHA-256: fc7ab6981b40be3b6656f0b02966aa7454c7e031adf40e05ed03c17a126bbdc5

78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment T1204 User Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded malicious object that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of XFA forms and TIFF images. This exploit is designed to execute arbitrary code, likely leading to the download and execution of a second-stage payload. The embedded file 'embedded_file_obj0001.bin' is the likely 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` `9d99ae65444abf76bd457a210eadc3d19c91622a2b869148a0b5dcddc4291842`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x50	12926 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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