PDF malware analysis — malicious · 5812c57e668d0147

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.2 KB Created: 2002-02-02 59:55:01 Authoring application: e

MD5: e89d082aa7442834831d7c892e53080d SHA-1: e73f9d74ab30b8bf033dd065da145f8fa2f428e6 SHA-256: 5812c57e668d0147a26e0019996b02305014b4f7bc6e55c85febe7c494a82754

102 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK

T1204.002 Malicious File: User Execution T1059.001 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The 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, indicating an attempt to execute malicious code. This script likely serves as a downloader for further stages of the attack. The embedded nature of the exploit and script points to a delivery mechanism designed to compromise the user upon opening the PDF.

Heuristics 6

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
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 2

Files carved from inside the sample during analysis.

Filename	Kind	Source	Size
`embedded_file_obj0029.bin` `3b903e5de9ca7079622c5d24066fc85ab1e03c30a3b87b3da8a2655f06d11788`	pdf-embedded-file	PDF EmbeddedFile object 29 at offset 0x2F8	96 bytes
`stream_003_off000003ab.js` `ef723d7cb89580342e9a648738ad8942d67d0b1cf9f226534832fea0daa3ef5e`	decompressed-pdf-stream	PDF FlateDecoded stream at offset 0x3AB	52863 bytes
Detection ClamAV: No threats found Obfuscation or payload: likely Carved artifact contains 1 long base64-like blob(s).

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