PDF malware analysis — malicious · 15048390e0de1cae

MALICIOUS

PDF

6.0 KB Created: 2012-08-23 16:04:16

MD5: 1a98656a956599de2fb4963d1dc2d4da SHA-1: 645133802e2f1b4b86d3f10c911a915752b02b7d SHA-256: 15048390e0de1cae25c3bafbee786465acc0b026a92e32bed987b70634c24c5a

180 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1566.001 Spearphishing Attachment

The sample is a PDF file that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to LibTIFF and XFA forms. This exploit allows for the execution of arbitrary code, indicated by the critical heuristic firings and ClamAV detection. The presence of multiple embedded files, including a large one (44035 bytes), suggests a payload delivery mechanism.

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.
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.Gen-259 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION

ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.Gen-259
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.
PDF differential parser failed info PDF_DIFFERENTIAL_PARSE_FAILED

The cross-check parser (pdfminer.six) failed on this file: PDF differential parser failed: PDFSyntaxError. Static heuristics still ran and any of their findings above are valid; only the differential cross-check signal is missing.
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://ns.adobe.com/xfdf/
- http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-form/2.8/
- http://www.xfa.org/schema/xci/1.0/
- http://www.xfa.org/schema/xfa-template/2.5/

Extracted artifacts 6

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0007.bin` `c09ae753ce4962d3d447f6ccdc05236eb9238277b66775a82f085f0fd265a84d`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 7 at offset 0x20C	130 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0011.bin` `39cfd1c5c51555a79d2a678182b6b8d3c734a72375b65115029b36fe9c4b0daf`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 11 at offset 0x47B	159 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
`embedded_file_obj0005.bin` `e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 5 at offset 0x56E	77 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0009.bin` `92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 9 at offset 0x617	56 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0017.bin` `d4d42ce0e2becf87abd24a70143a95b67bb3633a77c6bfce0204f49023ee7cd4`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 17 at offset 0x720	201 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0018.bin` `1af1c2962023ed8629d2d0c10562b07405f68771d5cec2689721f8f0af610d78`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 18 at offset 0xA25	44035 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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