Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 532beda7e79ce43c…

MALICIOUS

PDF

29.4 KB Created: 2012-12-11 17:01:31 Authoring application: pgvdttsdhcgam (via waymhnpjmjprfv)
MD5: dd92a537027972a98e281e155cf74c3a SHA-1: 56618a6135ef6a9afffbc6e117261982aea3a5c6 SHA-256: 532beda7e79ce43c5c44b7bf9fcd87da0e010eec9a618f51927ab0de15dd9ae8
78 Risk Score

Malware Insights

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

The sample is a PDF document that exploits the CVE-2010-0188 vulnerability in Adobe Reader. This exploit targets XFA forms and decodes JavaScript. The extracted JavaScript, named 'xfa_metadata_stage_000.js', is likely responsible for further malicious actions, such as downloading and executing a second-stage payload.

Heuristics 4

  • 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
  • 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 3

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0010.bin
f5fada8101d0364117b2454492c05b64911df9d040cddf613d50212da6228859
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 10 at offset 0x12A2 10740 bytes
stream_011_off000041c0.bin
392d4f07be91edcc9359ef94bc01fc8fbd40fa048af13b58bb9eb28874772ed6
decompressed-pdf-stream PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x41C0 209 bytes
xfa_metadata_stage_000.js
21bd57bd1c024eb34e0d40fd62a47e4a8eb85bcec16933745ab8086e83e48ca9
deobfuscated-js XFA /Title hex-XOR decoded JavaScript (raw, key=vanrxtsLKSR) at offset 0x5353 4002 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: No threats found
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 6 eval/decoder/string-building token(s). Carved artifact contains 3 long base64-like blob(s).