Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 1f11dfaaca372a62…

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.3 KB Created: 2012-06-11 17:19:01 Authoring application: Eop3
MD5: eb8c4d354fb40e6f0374e7d60804fc21 SHA-1: 5847456db9f58fbdf236e8aecbe93530ba8f5ee1 SHA-256: 1f11dfaaca372a62cbb2850408ff9b4044b5dc24ac65a8f70fef8d88e17fb026
102 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204 Malicious Link T1204.001 Malicious Link: Malicious Link T1204.002 Malicious Link: Malicious File

The PDF file exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to LibTIFF XFA image processing. A JavaScript payload was extracted from a decompressed stream within the PDF. This payload is likely responsible for the malicious behavior, potentially downloading and executing further stages.

Heuristics 6

  • 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
  • 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_off0000031f.js
13c12a92b02914596781ca6a7f1a226ff148a327f2d3ec700cae25cf4579b6a4
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x31F 83701 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 2 long base64-like blob(s).