PDF malware analysis — malicious · 12bc3563bf535ffa

MALICIOUS

PDF

7.1 KB Created: 2011-03-10 21:22:17 Authoring application: yup axe

MD5: 2574ecc9a899a4db5ceb9cdae1a0af1c SHA-1: 657030cf7c0b408994909e4fd4db2ad403b2dda5 SHA-256: 12bc3563bf535ffac902763ae7d77a580abf9418b203c4be37680b9d3ea9bb9b

198 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.007 JavaScript

The sample is a PDF document that leverages the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF component to execute arbitrary code. The PDF contains XFA forms with embedded JavaScript, which is likely responsible for triggering the exploit and downloading a secondary payload. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 0.9999

Heuristics 8

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.
XFA form contains risky executable script high CVE related PDF_XFA_SCRIPT

PDF embeds an XFA form whose script block contains exploit, submission/launch, or shell-execution primitives. Ordinary LiveCycle print/update scripts are left as generic XFA/JS signals unless stronger behavior is present.
unescape() call high PDF_UNESCAPE

unescape() found — often used to decode shellcode in PDF JS exploits (matched inside decoded stream)
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
Embedded script payload in PDF stream low 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.
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.
Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL

One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
URL http://ns.adobe.com/xdp/
- http://www.xfa.org/schema/xci/1.0/
- http://ns.adobe.com/xtd/
- http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/
- http://ns.adobe.com/xfdf/
- http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-form/2.8/
- http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 7

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0011.bin` `d81baa73e490e4cb879e13927cacd1dd1be37524a37eac51603e15117c578777`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x788	84 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0012.bin` `24c130f03a4cf51d470b536e94c1e58af67665739e200e0ce198ad41086243c0`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 12 at offset 0x83A	228 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0013.bin` `c97e0522381d6196cc0695f35f4d065f15c9c86a9601a7f776c6afd3f4c6b460`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 13 at offset 0x92B	199 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0010.bin` `8fc35d27fc4a242d05a32adb90a9c99d78d68124920fd99adaa76d43fba0dbb1`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0xA1D	154 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0003.bin` `e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 3 at offset 0xAEE	77 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0016.bin` `92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 16 at offset 0xB95	56 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0017.bin` `c25627fdf99ca9f680b9d0c70f6573056c529075384066d6286180350f7ee5b1`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 17 at offset 0xF15	8749 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 2 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

Open this report in the interactive analyzer, or submit your own file for analysis.