PDF malware analysis — malicious · 3a239154912f3b88

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.3 KB Created: 2004-05-02 19:56:00 Authoring application: e

MD5: 078b773afc03e817a8abdb78a12e5673 SHA-1: 96ca3445b1d4e112e3a68d6debfc1b567d530315 SHA-256: 3a239154912f3b888fa39268408e369ba8f8404514c49f4afd884bfe2e511219

100 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell T1059.003 Windows Command and Shell

The PDF document exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to LibTIFF XFA image processing. A JavaScript payload was extracted from a decompressed stream within the PDF. This script is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload, contributing to the malicious nature of the document.

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 1

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`stream_003_off00000330.js` `bc972ef9dd098fcf48191fd696ccfceb8f6c802ebc870b6a790a3ddaf95fe0d7`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x330	61241 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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