PDF malware analysis — malicious · 3c89459ce8e2e4db

MALICIOUS

PDF

4.2 KB Created: 2011-04-05 23:46:28 Authoring application: bub lob

MD5: db7ba51f4f1264b1a496ba7c695b067a SHA-1: d9e8addf14b1385df9ef1b244443af615375bee6 SHA-256: 3c89459ce8e2e4dbd206f6cb02d7784f74f69a425ffed358d4f1637c8fdf1a3c

168 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an embedded XFA form that exploits CVE-2010-0188 in Adobe Reader. This vulnerability allows for the execution of arbitrary code, likely to download and run a second-stage payload. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness, and the embedded file further supports this assessment.

Machine Learning

Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

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.
XFA form contains risky executable script high CVE related PDF_XFA_SCRIPT

PDF embeds an XFA form whose script block contains exploit, submission/launch, or shell-execution primitives. Ordinary LiveCycle print/update scripts are left as generic XFA/JS signals unless stronger behavior is present.
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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0008.bin` `8dfa46f9e30830f555b648181e48b2d383f3171647a9b1336c5d482ac3658c33`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 8 at offset 0x166	12942 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 eval/decoder/string-building token(s).

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