Malicious PDF — malware analysis report

Static analysis result for SHA-256 7fd26b1b52961d4e…

MALICIOUS

PDF

5.9 KB Created: 2013-04-29 11:13:02
MD5: 8649d8bba07ec8dec43764bcba9568e4 SHA-1: 15feeeb86ae08f70020f4cc6274916cd42e5d149 SHA-256: 7fd26b1b52961d4e5e7b49ced77c35645faf5a196906a796f86edd44e7d9df10
218 Risk Score

Malware Insights

MITRE ATT&CK
T1203 Exploitation for Client Execution T1059.004 Command and Scripting Interpreter: PowerShell

The sample is a PDF document that contains an embedded file and triggers the CVE-2010-0188 exploit. ClamAV also detected this file as Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10. The embedded file is likely the second-stage payload. The document body text is not human-readable and appears to be obfuscated or corrupted.

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.
  • ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10 critical CLAMAV_DETECTION
    ClamAV detected this file as malware: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10
  • ClamAV detection on extracted artifact critical EXTRACTED_FILE_CLAMAV
    ClamAV flagged at least one file extracted from inside this sample. Even when the wrapping document carries no AV detection of its own, a hit on the carved artifact is a strong indicator the sample is a delivery vehicle.
  • 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
  • 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.

FilenameKindSourceSize
embedded_file_obj0006.bin
7b3e3a3d5d44d4fe1ef778d405d4e276f43de86b063391a96a7e9f57a736ce56
pdf-embedded-file PDF EmbeddedFile object 6 at offset 0x430 78406 bytes
Detection
ClamAV: Pdf.Exploit.CVE_2010_0188-10
Obfuscation or payload: likely
Carved artifact contains 2 long base64-like blob(s).