Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 4d594ef91ce2abca…

MALICIOUS

PDF

61.6 KB Created: 2011-07-11 12:17:02 Authoring application: lVwC
MD5: 8ed4dd5a900d1a12c723f04317dc7452 SHA-1: 49c35b897e693f80aa6f48c194460f2087d88f31 SHA-256: 4d594ef91ce2abcacd3266496c70a170674daa38b16db1416c8f1a9d79c58b6a
140 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.001 PowerShell

The PDF file contains an embedded script that exploits CVE-2010-0188, a vulnerability in Adobe Reader related to XFA forms. The script is designed to download and execute a second-stage payload. The presence of an embedded script and the specific exploit indicate a malicious intent to compromise the user's system.

Heuristics 8

  • 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 executable script high CVE related PDF_XFA_SCRIPT
    PDF embeds an XFA form whose dataset contains a <script> or <xfa:script> block — XFA scripting has been the exploit primitive for several Adobe Reader RCEs (CVE-2010-0188 family, CVE-2018-4901, and others). Plain XFA without scripts is far less risky.
  • 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.
  • Embedded URL info EMBEDDED_URL
    One or more URLs were extracted from the document. The URL itself is not a detection — see the per-URL labels for which channel (macro, JS, link annotation, document body, ...) reached each URL.
    URL http://ns.adobe.com
    • http://�wt.xfa.org/schema/xfa-data/1.0/

Extracted artifacts 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
stream_001_off00000319.js
72f4902c14333b18d8865e31537d6120599954842cadcfaba7e955d4f53f47f0
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x319 61287 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).
embedded_pdf_script_00000627.bin
a219f51afd9178ac17bacd950599fee5f70b917e4d9464a23dc903f7a665fbc3
pdf-embedded-script PDF raw stream script payload at offset 0x627 61670 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 407 long base64-like blob(s).