Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 2d2b6bfce43ec879…

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.9 KB Created: 2013-04-29 11:13:02
MD5: c3f32861e110db7a083a65324729cb00 SHA-1: ef3613c1bae57d0c45498be8560b434431e2fa8d SHA-256: 2d2b6bfce43ec8796e8c760022820caa1d046ca7bea833cb7af465ac5ba2c888
218 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The PDF file contains an embedded exploit targeting CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader, as indicated by multiple critical heuristic firings and ClamAV detection. The exploit likely serves to download and execute a second-stage payload from the embedded artifact. The document body content is not human-readable and appears to be malformed or obfuscated.

Heuristics 7

  • 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.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • 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
  • 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
embedded_file_obj0006.bin
ac335cc13ae463743f3831ce7f354485638a339f1e7f584b3fce6fc65129afcb
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 6 at offset 0x431 78547 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 2 long base64-like blob(s).