PDF malware analysis — malicious · 49d4fa15c7726e82

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.2 KB Created: 2012-06-11 17:19:01 Authoring application: %

MD5: cee18ff91b9ec5165db137a0a54e4160 SHA-1: dee601457bc5ec2d9c9ef1d8958a7c0d8c230045 SHA-256: 49d4fa15c7726e826fb950c16bd438aa63f3f53789ec43d21c558a16dc90b85a

80 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution

The PDF file contains a critical heuristic indicating exploitation of CVE-2010-0188, a known vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to LibTIFF and XFA forms. This exploit is designed to achieve code execution on the victim's machine, typically to download and run additional malicious content. No document body or script content was available for further analysis, but the exploit itself is sufficient evidence of malicious intent.

Heuristics 5

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 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_002_off00000325.bin` `85e8c0ed7916b3164f96edfe65a7c602124271142eb50e4c5dc3633190b9cbec`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x325	65755 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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