PDF malware analysis — malicious · 48cbc914324c1e8b

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.1 KB Created: 2011-04-05 23:46:28 Authoring application: bgsfsdffab

MD5: 0ce905150217a3d0eac8253ad42b19da SHA-1: 9496a96840fa0ce1c05c6f311438904a9f9ef5c6 SHA-256: 48cbc914324c1e8b2c4fb39c930f74785254ea7fd7d921b54a4681ee166cc48a

132 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204 User Execution

This PDF file exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to LibTIFF XFA image handling. A JavaScript payload was extracted from a decompressed stream within the PDF. The ML classifier strongly indicates maliciousness. The extracted JavaScript is likely responsible for downloading and executing a second-stage payload.

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.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`stream_001_off00000326.js` `324e691c6d7c5adaaaff86ea930665e59150a20b5d65e870712849596da99564`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x326	55122 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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