PDF malware analysis — malicious · 277ff4173c992584

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.8 KB Created: 2012-10-05 27:44:18 Authoring application: jkkia=bnwesa(nehet.replace(/cvhhse/g, iiioes.charAt(4

MD5: a81c1cd5b9c9aa1c47cfe35ed7ba33c7 SHA-1: cc24e5d3a2aefa2c29886387818954d6d4319fc4 SHA-256: 277ff4173c992584e3ba3dc644b8e3de9cbc3ab5b5f7fad22ddf541470276c8a

100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The sample is a PDF document that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms and LibTIFF. This exploit allows for arbitrary code execution. An embedded script payload was also detected, suggesting the document is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload.

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 6

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0010.bin` `c09ae753ce4962d3d447f6ccdc05236eb9238277b66775a82f085f0fd265a84d`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x258	130 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0019.bin` `91fe19effc24e03328d1b65ba876b72b4bfbef268f92a70689f93acbf9e3e702`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 19 at offset 0x46E	57 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0003.bin` `e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 3 at offset 0x50C	77 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0014.bin` `92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 14 at offset 0x5B6	56 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0001.bin` `d4d42ce0e2becf87abd24a70143a95b67bb3633a77c6bfce0204f49023ee7cd4`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x6BD	201 bytes
`embedded_file_obj0002.bin` `f6932cb98ff08ec23840652ae080293b08eb088d3a1af713d13b5d4356ffca19`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 2 at offset 0x9BC	35986 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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