PDF malware analysis — malicious · fd517a1019dfc3db

MALICIOUS

PDF

3.9 KB Authoring application: rxode (via va)

MD5: 15bfc8ec595b5442e18818680ca893b7 SHA-1: 39e37399f47289b35468a45954b30f822c84ecfe SHA-256: fd517a1019dfc3db770d365f07597402fa2a51812344c0f7520f9b3a1b74d049

98 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an embedded script payload and exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader. The XFA form suggests an attempt to leverage interactive elements for exploitation. The embedded file, 'embedded_file_obj0041.bin', is likely the second-stage payload.

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` `f73df999e74b01c28d3786338feeb0f0d7231e6c36444435ee8d50ed4c81a280`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 41 at offset 0x53	9800 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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