Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 27c3c2f11a010d74…

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.4 KB Created: 2012-06-11 17:19:01 Authoring application: %
MD5: 40b1ef1135b784dd113942d30f83193e SHA-1: cdef70376c47db8e18fd497d8b0ac5dd8daff89b SHA-256: 27c3c2f11a010d74d558a4629d7d627243b4b503ce62088392f7762422c22626
80 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form that exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader. This vulnerability allows for the execution of arbitrary code, likely to download and run a secondary payload. The embedded artifact stream further supports the presence of exploit code.

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_off00000313.bin
d055109b6c5a9b4d1d28e5fa4b38c8793025bb82decbb4cce29473dc91730329
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x313 88009 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 2 long base64-like blob(s).