Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2712c53f77b95fba…

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.5 KB Created: qHFdTlfA Authoring application: gfhersdd
MD5: 5bcc751eddabfcc7157ffd7368bd3bdc SHA-1: 42a3bdd753e6659f3fca2b0864837d8f95e68c7d SHA-256: 2712c53f77b95fba23d363e7ea347dea98e0f54bc99db994b1921cb6b1cd8acb
80 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded stream that triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit, targeting a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of LibTIFF XFA images. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution on the victim's machine. The file is classified as malicious due to this known 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_001_off000002e7.bin
0952ae7f22895d88dce708144a928c66e80b603afaa7a95bbe5a0e21155bfa6d
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x2E7 59522 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).