Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 45b9c0d8a39607fc…

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.1 KB Created: 2011-04-05 23:46:28 Authoring application: bgsfsdffab
MD5: 3477dd6f394d92c8450e1e5393e38e6c SHA-1: 54bd4f0752b8a855c6ba3c96946fe8752919d510 SHA-256: 45b9c0d8a39607fc9eafd1a075af5a6203d5d49ebecf7533840918608812f00d
132 Risk Score

Malware Insights

The PDF file contains an embedded JavaScript payload and exploits CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to LibTIFF XFA images. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The embedded JavaScript is likely responsible for executing the malicious payload, potentially downloading further stages or establishing a connection.

Machine Learning

  • Nyx PDF Classifier malicious score 1.0000

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.
  • 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
  • Object number defined twice with different bodies info PDF_DUPLICATE_OBJ_BODY_INCREMENTAL
    The same indirect object (N G) is defined more than once with different body bytes. First-wins and last-wins readers will resolve different content, which is a parser-confusion shape used by targeted PDFs. Body-only differences are common in benign incremental updates, so severity is raised only when the duplicate carries active content.
  • 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_001_off00000316.js
7d78695b8dc6da6310792df0eb2c6325a4b97f1e1fe38fd1b13fb1bcd05d5fc7
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x316 55338 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).