Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1ba232f0e6c24aad…

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.3 KB Created: val Authoring application: %
MD5: 94289c8ad83f4b95ac68678414018043 SHA-1: 4b6d37f101d18cd012cdc37fb6436b7ef283a6db SHA-256: 1ba232f0e6c24aadd51ab9bd6002e00b0dcc39be85e9d4b1e61dd54c7f4171f2
80 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, which targets a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's LibTIFF processing. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution. The embedded artifact 'stream_002_off0000031a.bin' likely contains the shellcode for the exploit.

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 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
  • 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.

Extracted artifacts 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_002_off0000031a.bin
d73d5a9d906efa0c8233122b06fed716b85317723f9e55365e97405ccd0b5b7f
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x31A 68073 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).