Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 43e3d2dfedc4ced4…

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.9 KB Created: 2012-10-18 11:51:53 Authoring application: kkiiia=unescape(nehet.replace(/jjsjff/g, niittu.charAt(4
MD5: b777a2a45b330be190d578cb741556d5 SHA-1: b15ce69d2e4b3d75b1494df47bc8b338dda903e8 SHA-256: 43e3d2dfedc4ced4a48bfb0781fe8a4f082aeeb8ed84d24ed5593fe3d9e29692
140 Risk Score

Malware Insights

The sample is a PDF document that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader's handling of LibTIFF XFA images. The heuristic 'CVE_2010_0188' directly indicates this exploit. The PDF also contains embedded script payloads and an embedded file, suggesting it's designed to deliver a secondary malicious payload. The document body text is heavily obfuscated and does not provide clear user-facing content.

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.
  • unescape() call high PDF_UNESCAPE
    unescape() found — often used to decode shellcode in PDF JS exploits
  • 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 6

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0006.bin
c09ae753ce4962d3d447f6ccdc05236eb9238277b66775a82f085f0fd265a84d
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 6 at offset 0x257 130 bytes
embedded_file_obj0016.bin
3f515354ffef3d32c8cb85892289ccbab7cf1cdd259211f5cf0a4efacff5873a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 16 at offset 0x487 52 bytes
embedded_file_obj0001.bin
e6c26a3478346d27e841ad49868ebf68bf4c6863b6750e8d60bda3c4c6f79876
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 1 at offset 0x520 77 bytes
embedded_file_obj0018.bin
92a3ce61d783e15932b5de127ce45a9b4c2f98f4da2453f65241573c1dda808a
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 18 at offset 0x5CA 56 bytes
embedded_file_obj0004.bin
d4d42ce0e2becf87abd24a70143a95b67bb3633a77c6bfce0204f49023ee7cd4
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 4 at offset 0x6D1 201 bytes
embedded_file_obj0015.bin
e5b0c67cd2dc6d7ab3c9614d913c04422a4c699cbbdd1685e8af65755e4853d7
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 15 at offset 0xA2C 35045 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).