Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 399382ea333bd6a0…

MALICIOUS

PDF

37.9 KB Created: eval Authoring application: gfhersdd
MD5: 8c0dc99fd6089674298cb522f41a2e82 SHA-1: d3e0794088eec5682bf70d9893d0ad09ccd83dfe SHA-256: 399382ea333bd6a0303319ec8a801f62f136b0bb702578bca75345e4a72fb0a4
80 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The sample is a PDF document that exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader. This vulnerability allows for arbitrary code execution when a user opens a specially crafted PDF file. The exploit payload was identified within a decompressed stream in the PDF.

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_off000002e7.bin
07e80142f730244eab792119fa22c8907c87b90b5cb4f10164c165bf907d7db4
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x2E7 50618 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).