Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 20e0067e7076a1ed…

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.1 KB Created: 2003-03-03 59:56:01
MD5: b4d375b90c5e386b1535d82ab6e7ee16 SHA-1: 1794312908451b16c58f51c8094c340c730d5456 SHA-256: 20e0067e7076a1edf154bba740cb86d18f8e793a7cbc74ae1e6f1d7b815205cd
100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell T1059.003 Command and Scripting Interpreter: Windows Command Shell

The PDF file contains an embedded JavaScript payload that exploits CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader. The embedded JavaScript is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload. The presence of the XFA form and embedded file further supports the malicious nature of this document.

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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0029.bin
2e629b1d3483005ca18afaf9324bf8635c613e0f844b8f9eb96494d9e2409986
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 29 at offset 0x323 139 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
stream_003_off000003fb.js
ee406e7b090c1001483414894ffd58297faeea6694d16f9f5048b7ce5ba5d5d9
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x3FB 43937 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).